Many of you may be supporting the striking grocery workers in southern cali. When you leave your local Kroger and look for somewhere else to shop, keep in mind that just because the workers aren't striking doesn't mean a business is labor friendly.

Whole Foods is a great example. They are undoubtedly right up there with the worst of the anti-union companies. They have a veneer of social justice, but are actually horrible to thier employees. Earlier this year Whole Foods made the same health insurance cuts that is causing the current strikes at other stores.

Visit www.wholeworkersunite.org for more information about the whole foods employee fight for justice.

Grow our own, or what, asshole? I've had enough of your strike bullshit. They have till Monday to square this shit away, then it' back to Ralphs. and PLEASE try to get in my way.

There are plenty of union places to shop. http://ufcw324.org/altshop.html

ufcw324.org/altshop.html

Don't knock growing your own. Homegrown bell peppers cost little, but taste a lot better than the ones at the store. I've been eating $2 per pound tomatos and eggplant all summer, and it was $1 per plant. I used to grow my own herbs in pots, and that saved me a lot of money too. My relatives pick around $200 worth of avocados per year off their tree. A good garden can save you $200 to $500 a year in groceries, and feed you better tasing food than you can get at the best restaurants. If you compost, you'll save another $30 or so on fertilizer.

and save yourself more $$ by saving seeds year to year. It's really easy to start a small garden and make it self-sustaining.
I spend zilch Ap->Nov on veg.

CORPORATIONS REALLY SUCK.
They are the worst thing ever to happen to the US. The founding fathers wanted to keep the lid on corporations until some law clerk accidently wrote in the Supreme Court decision that corporations are legal persons. Now that is absolutely absurd. Corporations have been screwing regular working people as long as they have been around.

CORPORATIONS REALLY REALLY SUCK.

The government makes a few things I use daily: the roads, the traffic signals, and the regulations that let me drink water from the tap.

Corporations make most of the other stuff, but, with the notable exceptions of this computer, the microwave, televions, and stereo, the objects could have been made by companies that were not corporations.

Jesus YOU are the dunce Bush Ass-mirer. Corporations don't make shit. A corporation is a legally created FICTIOUS PERSON. A corporation doesn't make shit without WORKERS, dumb fuck. There is no corporation anywhere that can't exist without WORKERS. And in every corporation I am sure they are trying to come up with some plan to do away with anything that resembles a worker(except for robots). The reason you hate unions is you hate having some kind of collective bargaining power given to workers. Who have to bargain with another collective bargaining unit the fucking corporation. Get rid of government and corporations.

Who sets up, plans, finances, and takes a risk in giving these WORKERS a place to WORK? Thanks for the legal definition of corporation, it was very informative.
Labor is important, no doubt, but workers come and go. These clowns on strike could be replaced next week, but without the evil corporation, where would Jesse picket outside of?

Ben and Jerry sold out to the man. They're now owned by Unilever, hee hee.

Once again the cheap labor conservatives have a post modern view of history. Take a look back Krustychump, and you will see that the FOUNDING FATHERS,that most of you right wing idiots tend to bring up(like bad actor Chumpton Heston calls the "wise old white men") were extremely wary of the power of corporations. Corporations have free speech 24 hours a day(how much free speech does they average worker have? almost none especially when they go to work for a corporation), they have unlimited life spans, never go to jail, and if convicted of something such as Archer-Daniels-Midland was convicted of trying to price fix the market they pay a fine, that can be a tax write off. Most modern corporations get tax write offs by the billions, and subsidies and corporate welfare to the tune of at least 100 billion dollars a year. Where's all the cheap labor conservative rhetoric about "succeeding on your own" and "personal responsibility" when the GOVERNMENT is HELPING THE CORPORATIONS pick up their fucking tab. And who looks out for the average joe? Fucking nobody. People making a measly 15 bucks an hour are taking on corporations that have the overwhelming political clout(such as the Supreme Court ruling in the late '70's that money equated free speech,once again who has more free speech, 15 dollar an hour workers or 100 million dollar corporations?), and overwhelming economic power. Welcome to the land of CORPORATE FEUDALISM.

Nice Angry Left rhetoric.

Some people like the corporate atmosphere, others don't. I didn't, so I went to work for myself. But of course, I worked hard and applied myself in school and it has carried over into my adult career. Many of my other classmates did the same thing and they work for corps pulling down six figure salaries. But, I watched other kids my age piss around in school and waste their time and pretty much everything they did went at it half-assed, and now thry're paying the price, now they're a bunch of 40 years old bag boys or cashiers at the grocery store or they dig ditches for the DOT(you know, the $15/hr crowd). I don't feel sorry for them. They sat through the same classes I did and had the same opportunities, they just didn't care.

The Kroger employees need to take a good look around, and compare benefits with other companys. They need to be thankful that they still have insurance coverage. If they keep it up, they are going to end up without a job period. The Kroger company has to adjust to the growing health care costs, just like everyone else. Many companies have had to drop coverage all together. The Kroger employees need to look at the "big picture", rather than trying to bankrupt their company. There are plenty of other grocery stores who are reaping from this strike! That includes Wal-Mart and Sam's. Think about it.

What did you rant about before you started gnawing the "cheap labor conservative" bone?

That reminds me -- you're neglecting the other conservatives:

* The Rape the Environment conservatives

* The Preemptive War conservatives

* The Foreign Oil Stealing conservatives

* The Screw the Taxpayer with Crack Whore Funding Programs conserva...oops, sorry, that's a kind of liberal.

Anyway, the others are getting lonely. Why don't you give them a good talking to?

For those of you who do not work in the grocery business AS I do have idea how hard it really is. You have no idea what they want to take away from us its more than just paying for benfits. WE do not mind paying for benifits its taking away retirment, job security with a two tier pay scale. What about the people who has sweated for this company for 20- 30years to now get screwd. Also 95% of the employees are not full time. Not out choice.

For those of you who do not work in the grocery business AS I do have idea how hard it really is. You have no idea what they want to take away from us its more than just paying for benfits. WE do not mind paying for benifits its taking away retirment, job security with a two tier pay scale. What about the people who has sweated for this company for 20- 30years to now get screwd. Also 95% of the employees are not full time. Not out choice.

Your little missive makes the corporate point. You are, quite obviously, an idiot. Maybe (and I might be reaching here) this is why you found a home in the grocery store industry. "I mights be me sum upset bout the man tryin to take my"... blah blah blah. Try this- Get an education, learn how to speak correctly, try your hardest to keep your "family" off of COPS-MIAMI, and gosh, I don't know- maybe figure out that you are a fucking moron if you think that scanning cans is a skill. Get a life. Get a job. You need one, right? Strike pay won't cut it. How 'bout standing slack-jawed somwhere else? Fuck you- you're worthless.

I am in the grocery business and I support my company for their decision to secure their future by making cuts.

Its a sad thing that durring all this strike crap I havnt heard one comment about making changes to the health care system.

Here in the US we have had problems with our health care system since it began and now its just getting out of hand..

We need to collectivly make a stand as a nation for health care reform and make it more affordable rather than punnishing big business for not being able to foot the bill.

That's because Dennis Is an invisable mute.

Person, if I may call you that, who ripped Theresa a new asshole. Does that make you feel good about yourself? BOOK LEARNIN' AIN'T SHIT. You obviously have a problem intergrating new, real life information into your narrow mind.

"...rather than punnishing big business for not being able to foot the bill."

With 91% higher profits,.
they can afford to foot the bill

The workers that keep those customers coming back day in and day out deserve a share of the profits they help create as much as any money bag investor sitting on his ass collecting checks does.

And thanks to shoopper the inherent racism and class warfare is coming to the forefront once again. "Get an education?" he or she is. An education of how the ameican corporate greed machine is fucking the average worker. "Scanning cans is not a skill" but corporate brown-nosing,cooking the books, shuffling papers,making little power point presentations with little pie charts, and taking off work early to go golfing is? Time to take another tony robbins seminar on how to awaken the capitalist jackass within.

Unions stand up for dumb asses like you too.

Do you even have a job?

I work 2 jobs and don't even get half of what they do. Besides they don't HALF to be part of the union. Stop crying and get back to work.

"Scanning cans is not a skill" but corporate brown-nosing,cooking the books, shuffling papers,making little power point presentations with little pie charts, and taking off work early to go golfing is? "


Well, yeah, comparitively it is.

You didn't actually think that the two were equitable did you?

So Toni thinks that Kroger employees and other grocery workers should be humbly thankful that their companies are giving them any health coverage at all. Thankful to the billionaires who control these outfits, eh? One wonders whether Toni works for the Kroger Public Relations Department or is just so out of it that he thinks that this is 1878. Or mabye earlier - Toni sounds like the kind of house slave who would have said we should be grateful that the master is feeding us at all, even if he just gives us water, stale bread and rice.
Well, Toni baby, maybe you should join the 21st century, where in every industrialized nation on earth except the US health care is assumed to be a basic human right to which all residents of a nation are entitled, not something to be grateful for. You've got it backwards : the workers are producing the wealth that the owners of these chains steal for themselves and their pampered offspring. While some people are sweating it out working overtime at Kroger's, the sons and daughters of the owners are off at USC or the Seven Sisters colleges, spending about as much time worrying about health insurance as they do worrying about getting wasted in Iraq.