Posted on 04/12/2019 12:01:53 PM PDT by matt04
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for president in 2020, delivered donuts and coffee to picketing Stop & Shop workers in Somerville on Friday, and urged shoppers to take their business elsewhere.
“Do not cross the picket line,” Warren said. “Understand people on the picket line are not just fighting for their families. They’re fighting for all our families. They’re fighting for basic fairness and equality in this country.”
On Thursday, the unions representing 31,000 Stop & Shop workers across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut voted to go on strike. Their contract expired in February, and they have been unable to reach a deal on a new one.
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Speaking to reporters, Warren reiterated the message that she has been campaigning on for years, that the wealthy are taking advantage of the working class. “This is the problem all across this country is that those at the top think that they can just keep sucking out every bit of profit and leave nothing for the working people, the people who actually get out there and make it happen every day,” Warren said.
“What people are asking for here is they’re just asking for fair wages, they’re asking for health care benefits and just as shot at a decent retirement,” she said.
Let’s form a huge caravan and rush the line.
I lived in Michigan in the late 1980’s.
There was a local grocery chain called Hamady’s, which was the second oldest in the state. It had gone through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy after their former CEO had gone to prison for embezzlement.
By the time they emerged all sorts of new competitors were in the market and they really struggled. They ended up back in Chapter 11, which is usually a death knell.
Some consultant for the union came up with an ESOP plan which would allow the workers to buy the company. They would all become shareholders and more or less work for themselves.
In order to pull that off they would have to agree to a pay cut.
The union workforce VOTED THAT DOWN. Put the company out of business and put themselves all out of a job.
This mentality is truly impossible to comprehend.
It makes them feel good, while not getting paid while the chant “union strong” i guess. Per a post by one of the local the number 1 issue they have is a $3-5/wk increase in insurance premiums. Yep, that work not getting paid.
Only remaining unionized chain grocery store in CT, MA, RI and parts of NJ/NY.
All Leftist women want to channel Mother Jones, I guess.
Yeah I will never understand how their minds work. Thankfully.
Giant Eagle here in Pittsburgh is unionized.
And yes, their prices are significantly higher than any of their competition.
For years they had a near-monopoly in this town because they cut their deal with the unions while Kroger, Thorofare, Loblaws and many other chains were driven away by them.
The when sales slump due to people liking the competition better, higher prices due to union contracts, etc. hours get cut, union workers ear less money, and eventually stores reduce hours or close.
Warren strikes me as a “Whole Foods” / specialty cheese shop kind of shopper. Doubt she would shop Stop & Shop.
OK, I’ve never been to the east coast so I don’t know the stores.
Here it’s Kroger’s, Meijer, or Wally World, and Wally’s kicks all their a@@es.
Somebody should photoshop Lizzy shopping at Walmart.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that the constitutional limit on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
Union: X employer is bad, we are here to protect you(in exchange for weekly dues). Go on strike, vote no on this, etc.
Workers: Ok. Whatever you say, you will protect me.
Unions add Dems solely exist to keep their respective groups feel downtrodden and worthless without them so they can exploit them.
Reminds me of my father who worked at GE in the 60’s. They went on strike for over 6 months for 10 cents more an hour. My father was a scab and crossed the picket line. He said it would take the rest of the idiots years to make up that 10 cents they lost for every hour they were out of work and he said I have a family to feed.
Its a big grocery store chain in New England, certainly in Massachusetts where I live.
Dingbat... glasses.
I think you’re thinking of Marie Harf, the blond, who has been a Fox News opinionator of late.
The other dummy spokesman was Jen Psaki, the redhead. I don’t think she wore glasses.
Liz: “Lets keep driving your jobs to China!!!”
Liawatha is such a vacuous, hypocritical hack. She doesn’t give a whit about the workers or the impact it will have.
When Market Baskett was in the process of being taken over and destroyed by a greedy family member affecting 20 MILLION CUSTOMERS across the entire New England area. Chief Spreading Bull didn’t offer one ounce of support, or lift a finger to save the company, to protect the employees, or their 20 MILLION CUSTOMERS.
Even after multitudes of employees and customers pleaded for her support to stand with them just as numerous politicians throughout the area had done, Liawatha did NOTHING!
Market Baskett was saved as the result of a massive, ongoing “grass roots” campaign to save the company led by customers and MB employees. Chief Spreading Bull didn’t do a single thing to support their efforts.
The woman is nothing but an opportunistic, political hack who only cares about one person: herself.
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