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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:31
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I don't know, I find this bizarre.
2 hours, 23 minutes ago
By PAUL CHAVEZ, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Three major supermarket chains said Sunday they plan to hire temporary workers to keep hundreds of stores open as more than 70,000 grocery clerks in Southern California began a strike.
Clerks at Kroger Co.'s Ralphs, Safeway Inc.'s Vons and Albertsons grocery stores went on strike late Saturday after negotiations between union representatives and store officials broke off, with health care coverage a key sticking point.
Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers union initially said strikers would only target Vons stores and urged the companies not to lock out workers from the others.
The supermarkets, however, said a strike against one company would be considered a strike against all three. In a joint statement, they said Albertsons and Ralphs would lock out employees during the dispute.
Plans were in the works to "ensure that stores remain open and staffed," the statement said. Sandra Calderon, a spokeswoman for Vons, said those plans include using temporary workers.
Clerks began picketing outside Vons markets late Saturday after last-minute negotiations involving a federal mediator broke down.
The companies operate about 900 stores from San Diego to Santa Barbara and control 60 percent of the Southern California market.
The union called on Southern Californians to honor picket lines and shop elsewhere. Under their contract, warehouse employees and truck drivers can also choose not to cross picket lines, said Paul Kenny, president of Teamsters Local Union No. 630.
Grocery clerks work a minimum of 24 hours a week, with 70 percent working part-time. They earn, on average, about $15 an hour, said Rick Icaza, president of UFCW Local 770 in Los Angeles and one of the negotiators.
Vons president Tom Keller said the chains' contract proposal does not call for wage reductions and asks employees to pay $5 a week for individual health care coverage and $10 to $15 a week for an entire family.
The union wants the companies to maintain health care plans and provide raises of 50 cents an hour the first year and 45 cents an hour the following two years, Icaza said.
The last time the grocery workers went on strike was 1978, with the walkout lasting less than a week.
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Bosh
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Taehan Mingook
Jan 1970
time: 00:31
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Homer: Wait -- I changed my mind. Stack it in the order
I'll eat it driving home.
Bag Boy 1: Sir, please! I already bagged it by color, and in
order of each item's discovery by man.
Homer: Customer's always right; that's what everybody likes
about us. Now, mush! [claps hands twice]
Agnes: You tell him, Jumbo! [to her lane's bag boy] And
you, start over! I want everything in one bag.
Bag Boy 2: Yes, ma'am.
Agnes: But I don't want the bag to be heavy.
Bag Boy 2: I don't think that's possible.
Agnes: What are you, the Possible Police? Just do it.
Moe: [to his lane's bag boy] Hey, hey, watch what you're
doing there, sack monkey. You're bruising my
DuraLog.
Homer: [poking Bag Boy 1 with a stick] Hurry up! I can't
stand here jabbing you all day.
Bag Boy 1: Ow! Stop. Bag boys have feelings, too, you know.
Homer: No, you don't.
Manager: Eh, excuse me. Is there a problem here?
Homer: No, I can handle it. [sotto voce to Bag Boy 1] I'll
get you, squealer.
Bag Boy 1: That's it. On behalf of Sack Stuffers Local 199,
I'm calling a strike!
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St Leo
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Member of the Apolyton Social Democratic Party
Jul 2005
time: 00:31
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Talking Union
by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, 1941
The Almanac Singers, Woodie Guthrie, Lee Hays, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger
Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you.
You got to build you a union, got to make it strong,
But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long.
You get shorter hours, better working conditions,
Vacations with pay. Take your kids to the seashore.
It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain
Just why you got to ride on the union train.
'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay,
We'll all be a-waitin' 'til Judgment Day.
We'll all be buried, gone to heaven,
St. Peter'll be the straw boss then.
Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't;
He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint.
You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten,
You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'.
Talk it over, speak your mind,
Decide to do somethin' about it.
Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool
To go to your meetin' and act like a stool.
But you can always tell a stool, though, that's a fact,
He's got a yaller streak a-runnin' down his back.
He doesn't have to stool, he'll always get along
On what he takes out of blind men's cups.
You got a union now, and you're sittin' pretty,
Put some of the boys on the steering committee.
The boss won't listen when one guy squawks,
But he's got to listen when the union talks.
He'd better, be mighty lonely
Everybody decide to walk out on him.
Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous
And they're paying you all starvation wages.
You go to the boss and the boss would yell,
"Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell."
Well, he's puffing a big seegar, feeling mighty slick
'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked.
Well, he looks out the window and what does he see
But a thousand pickets, and they all agree:
He's a bastard, unfair, slavedriver,
Bet he beats his wife!
Now, boys, you've come to the hardest time.
The boss will try to bust your picket line.
He'll call out the police, the National Guard,
They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card.
They'll raid your meetin', they'll hit you on the head,
They'll call every one of you a goddam red,
Unpatriotic, Japanese spies, sabotaging national defense!
But out at Ford, here's what they found,
And out at Vultee, here's what they found,
And out at Allis-Chalmers, here's what they found,
And down at Bethlehem, here's what they found:
That if you don't let red-baiting break you up,
And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up,
And if you don't let vigilantes break you up,
And if you don't let race hatred break you up,
You'll win. What I mean, take it easy, but take it!
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13-10-2003 03:54
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The the company wants to save mony cut the big-wigs paychecks, not the workers.
Someone's handing you a pile of manure. --Especially when the clerks are getting only $15 on average 
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