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Tucson: Will Fry’s and Safeway Grocery Stores Strike?

by on Nov. 10, 2009, under Grocery Stores, Life
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It’s possible that Kroger’s Fry’s and Safeway will go on strike. Both chains have advertised for temporary workers to cross the picket lines and pick up the slack.

How do you feel about these two big box food stores striking in such a down economy when unemployment is double digit?

Is anyone who is reading this going to strike?

 

Is anyone who is reading this going to cross the picket line to shop if there is a strike?

I remember last year or the year before when Ralph’s Market (another Kroger market) in So. Cal. went on strike. It lasted months and in the end, I think the workers lost more then they gained.

The dissent lies with wages and healthcare costs. So what else is new?

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  • kimmaden

    I love having my job too.I have been with Safeway for 12 years. See there is alot you don’t know because you don’t work there. I am a transfer.I never quit Safeway.I just moved from one safeway to the next.The contract they have here in arizona sucks. I had great insurance.My husband works for Safeway too so we were both double covered wich was wonderful with two boys,but that all changed when we moved to Arizona.We lost our insurance.I had to go to a private company for insurance and even that private company denied my husband wich was very scary for us. We wouldn’t be qualified for Safeway insurance again for 11 months and 18 months for my children. In January I finally get insurance for my children again through safeway.Another thing that makes me mad is that there are two contracts with Safeway.There is the old contract and the new contract.The old contract you have better benifets,You get paid for alot of  holidays,you get Sunday pay,you make 15 dollars an hour and there is the New Contract wich I am under.Rememeber I have been with this company for 12 years.I have been here as long as alot of the old contract employees.I only get paid for two holidays,I get not that great of insurance,I don’t get Sunday pay,and I make 12 dollars an hour.Which I am ok with that.I just hate that there are two contracts.I think we all should be able to move up on a scale.My husband and I took a 5.00 an hour pay cut to do the same work as everyone else. I hate this two contract crap. Now they want a third contract,so it will make it hard for even the very new people to move up. I just want to see it fair for all employee that work for safeway

    • karynzoldan

      Kim
      Thanks for the detailed explanation. These kinds of details don’t often make it into the news. It’s really bad practice not to give employees health insurance and worse to deny healthcare insurance.

      Fair is the way to go.

  • petrol

    Actually, I am thinking about organizing a strike myself…..construction workers, out of work anyway and having found a way to eat without the normal income, might ought to refuse to work without Health Insurance…..A time without money is as good a time as any…..withhold your skills, if you have any, from those who would ask you to work without health care.

    • karynzoldan

      Petrol
      I wish that were true but there would be a dozen people standing behind these striking construction workers ready to jump in and do the work. We created that economy by our collective thirst for cheap goods. Boycott 99 cents stores. Don’t buy stuff made in China. Shop local. Eat local.

  • phild

    Fry’s and Safeway workers…plenty of potentially hard-working Tucsonans will gladly have your jobs; maybe with wages & benefits that are lower than what you’ve been getting. I live close to Fry’s and will continue shopping there.

  • tiponeill

    I will certainly honor the picket line – I like going to Sunflower anyway :)

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