So it looks like that, effective 6pm Friday, November 13th, I will be losing my second job. The local union has decided to call for a strike. It looks like a "lockout" strike rather than a traditional strike where any employee can cross the picket line
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I ran in to work to pick up potatoes (not hte important part of the story :P) and got caught by a reporter talking to a coworker that's going to lose her house and the insurance for her kids when this strike happens and so I guess I'm getting quoted in the paper with something similar to:
I'm a big supporter of organizing labor for the betterment of all but this isn't organizing labor. This is posturing and powerplays that end up punishing the workers when the union should be the one working for us.
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But they don't fight for the lady in the meat department that keeps getting fucked with FMLA to take care of her husband that has cancer. They say there's nothing they can do for he to ensure fairness of FMLA. They also don't help the lady that got screwed on her vacation time so she lost her insurance AND two weeks worth of pay.
Obviously there's a reason I'm anti-THIS union. I believe in organized labor but not when it's acting like this over petty bullshit.
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We're all looking for new jobs but, unfortunately, the hiring situation is ridiculous down here. There are 5k applications for the positions that we're going to be forced out of just at my store (about 250 positions) so that'll tell you how much the unemployment situation really really sucks down here.
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Do you get insurance eventually through your new employers? It's so fucking scary not to have insurance.
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