Posted on 09/24/2008 7:23:00 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
It's like some sort of spy novel gone bad where the Soviet Agents are somehow the good guys. A grocery store worker and union member that makes over $20 an hour "quits" his job and starts a job in another grocery store making only $10 an hour just so he can cajole his new workplace into joining the union from the inside, pretending to be one of them. In fact, the union "supplements" this activist's pay while he invades the other store to agitate for unions there.
At issue is the organizing of the Fresh & Easy grocery chain in Huntington Beach, California. Fresh & Easy is a British chain that not long ago launched 83 stores in 3 states, one of them California, and ever since the United Food and Commercial Workers union has been agitating for the chain to become unionized.
The company offers health-care benefits to employees that work only 20 hours a week, but the unions want more, naturally. The chain says it stand behind its benefits and pay scale.
But here is the interesting part. The unions are not just presenting their union idea to Fresh & Easy employees for an honest and open debate about the value of the union, they are sneaking employees into the stores to act as inside agitators....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Salting.
Salting.
They aren't 'inside agitators' they're 'community organizers'. Show some respect.
Gee do you think the union has reported the supplemental pay to the IRS?
The Fresh & Easy by me is in about 1/3 of a Albertson that was closed after the last strike.
Sorry but the non-union store should fire their personnel mgr for hiring the guy unless he lied about his work history on the job app. If the guy lied on that he can be fired anyway.
No sane personnel mgr should hire anyone from a union shop that quit after 19 yrs to work for half wages. That's just plain nuts!
Is this legal?
I don’t know the ins and outs of labor law, but, I thought part of it was that employees talking to union organizers had to do that outside the workplace, on their own time. I thought that union organizers aren’t allowed on the premises of a work place in this manner. Maybe I’m wrong. Certainly employees will talk to each other on lunch breaks and outside of work. But I thought union organizers being inside the workplace was something that was not allowed under the law.
Ya that could be a red flag, if somebody leaves a union job where he’s got better pay and benefits than he would be getting at the new job.
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