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O.T. Grocery clerks strike
Yustabe said:
In France the cashiers are seated. More humane, no? Stronger union? Nope. Bigger wimps. Boon |
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Sockpuppet Yustabe said: In France the cashiers are seated. More humane, no? Stronger union? No eating or drinking at the cash register, either. (I really suspect that was some California Dreamin'.) |
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"George M. Middius" wrote in message ... Nexus 6 said: Grocery work ain't cushy either. Who's that you replied to? They work their butts off. Cashiers have to stand at a register, doing the same monotonous thing, for up to three hours at a time. No sitting, note. No coffee breaks. It's not like a steel mill, but neither is it like the office work most of us do. (Offense intended to Krooger.) I know it ain't cushy - my audio jobs often requirted standing on my feet ten hours a day without a minute sitting down. Not as repetitive, but hey. It was Marc & Art I was replying to. Let's hear from Marc and/or Art, then, about how grocery workers have cushy jobs. I'll grant the pay is good for the skills required, but I want to hear an explication of the "cushiness". But I wasn't talking about whether or not their jobs were cushy. Somewhere between then and now, someone else changed the subject. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Sockpuppet Yustabe said: Let's hear from Marc and/or Art, then, about how grocery workers have cushy jobs. I'll grant the pay is good for the skills required, but I want to hear an explication of the "cushiness". But I wasn't talking about whether or not their jobs were cushy. Somewhere between then and now, someone else changed the subject. OK, never mind. Marc explained what he meant. Turns out a grocery cashier's job in California is indeed somewhat cushier than in other parts of the country. |
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"Nexus 6" wrote in message news:PcWob.20670$d87.12079@okepread05... Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote: "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:etUob.20242$d87.8038@okepread05... The part time situation was part of the Clinton Jobs Miracle, wherein 80% or more of the millions of jobs created during his tenure were of the benfitless, part time variety. I suspect, if there is any recovery during Shrubs first term, it will be of the same quality. Nexus 6 Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Certainly. Real, full time jobs with benefits..... ......or none at all? ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Mr. Middius said:
Sockpuppet Yustabe said: Let's hear from Marc and/or Art, then, about how grocery workers have cushy jobs. I'll grant the pay is good for the skills required, but I want to hear an explication of the "cushiness". But I wasn't talking about whether or not their jobs were cushy. Somewhere between then and now, someone else changed the subject. OK, never mind. Marc explained what he meant. Turns out a grocery cashier's job in California is indeed somewhat cushier than in other parts of the country. It is. I can remember when I was a teenager, and getting a job in a grocery store was considered the best job a kid could get. A friend of mine made it in, and even though he found it difficult to come up with the $110 he needed to get into the union, within weeks he was making two to three times as much money as the rest of us. Also, recent advances in cash register technology have made it incredibly easy to do the job. Cashiers don't even have those little binders anymore listing the codes, because the register does everything. That's one of the reasons why self checkouts are becoming so popular. Cashiers have become glorified greeters. I think they picked a bad time to make a stand. Boon |
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Marc Phillips said: Also, recent advances in cash register technology have made it incredibly easy to do the job. Cashiers don't even have those little binders anymore listing the codes, because the register does everything. That's one of the reasons why self checkouts are becoming so popular. I haven't seen those super-smart registers yet. Are you seriously telling us that somebody as dorky as, say, Arnii Krooger could do the job? Cashiers have become glorified greeters. Except for the minimal required social skills, of course. |
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Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote: "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:PcWob.20670$d87.12079@okepread05... Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote: "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:etUob.20242$d87.8038@okepread05... The part time situation was part of the Clinton Jobs Miracle, wherein 80% or more of the millions of jobs created during his tenure were of the benfitless, part time variety. I suspect, if there is any recovery during Shrubs first term, it will be of the same quality. Nexus 6 Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Certainly. Real, full time jobs with benefits..... .....or none at all? In a race to the bottom, which one is better? Nexus 6 |
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Mr. Middius said:
I haven't seen those super-smart registers yet. Are you seriously telling us that somebody as dorky as, say, Arnii Krooger could do the job? **** no. You have to have social skills. Boon |
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"Nexus 6" wrote in message news:572pb.21289$d87.14970@okepread05... Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote: "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:PcWob.20670$d87.12079@okepread05... Sockpuppet Yustabe wrote: "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:etUob.20242$d87.8038@okepread05... The part time situation was part of the Clinton Jobs Miracle, wherein 80% or more of the millions of jobs created during his tenure were of the benfitless, part time variety. I suspect, if there is any recovery during Shrubs first term, it will be of the same quality. Nexus 6 Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Certainly. Real, full time jobs with benefits..... .....or none at all? In a race to the bottom, which one is better? The best that can be realisitically achieved. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "MiNE 109" wrote in message ... In France the cashiers are seated. More humane, no? Stronger union? Interesting news item today. The UCFW (I believe those are the correct initials for the Grocery workers union) says IT WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO OFFER HEALTH BENEFITS THAT COVER ALL MEDICAL BILLS DUE TO RISISNG COSTS! Can you say Hypocrisy. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Michael Mckelvy" wrote in message ... "Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "MiNE 109" wrote in message ... In France the cashiers are seated. More humane, no? Stronger union? Interesting news item today. The UCFW (I believe those are the correct initials for the Grocery workers union) says IT WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO OFFER HEALTH BENEFITS THAT COVER ALL MEDICAL BILLS DUE TO RISISNG COSTS! Can you say Hypocrisy. Employees of unions have been known to go on strike! No matter what, a boss is a boss is a boss is an asshole. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:etUob.20242$d87.8038@okepread05... The part time situation was part of the Clinton Jobs Miracle, wherein 80% or more of the millions of jobs created during his tenure were of the benfitless, part time variety. I suspect, if there is any recovery during Shrubs first term, it will be of the same quality. Nexus 6 Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Then you should be supporting more and larger tax cuts. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:07:44 -0800, "Michael Mckelvy"
wrote: Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Then you should be supporting more and larger tax cuts. Yeah, all of those poor people really need capital gains tax reduction. |
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dave weil said: Then you should be supporting more and larger tax cuts. Yeah, all of those poor people really need capital gains tax reduction. And relief on those onerous inheritance taxes. |
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"Michael Mckelvy" wrote in message ... "Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "Nexus 6" wrote in message news:etUob.20242$d87.8038@okepread05... The part time situation was part of the Clinton Jobs Miracle, wherein 80% or more of the millions of jobs created during his tenure were of the benfitless, part time variety. I suspect, if there is any recovery during Shrubs first term, it will be of the same quality. Nexus 6 Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Then you should be supporting more and larger tax cuts. Did I say that I didn't? I support equitable and sensible tax cuts. Every bracket should be lowered by about 3% of taxable income. That is, 28% bracket would be 25%, 15% would be 12%, etc. I also believe that there should be a minimum and a maximum tax, as applied to *gross* income. No one should pay less than 10% of all gross income over about $25,000 per year, nor more than 25% of their gross income. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "Marc Phillips" wrote in message ... These guys are striking because they're going to have to pay a $5 to $15 co-payment, something I and a majority of other health plan participants already have to do. Is that the only issue?? If the family sees a doctor 10 times, that's only $150. That equates to 7 1/2 cents an hour, over a year. They are striking over inconsequential economics? Not being out there, I am not keeping up. But it seems to me that there must be other issues. You can read the contract they are being offered at www.kfi640.com click on John and Ken and find it on the menu. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Michael Mckelvy" wrote in message ... "Sockpuppet Yustabe" wrote in message ... "Marc Phillips" wrote in message ... These guys are striking because they're going to have to pay a $5 to $15 co-payment, something I and a majority of other health plan participants already have to do. Is that the only issue?? If the family sees a doctor 10 times, that's only $150. That equates to 7 1/2 cents an hour, over a year. They are striking over inconsequential economics? Not being out there, I am not keeping up. But it seems to me that there must be other issues. You can read the contract they are being offered at www.kfi640.com click on John and Ken and find it on the menu. Answere better by marc, previously ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"dave weil" wrote in message ... On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:07:44 -0800, "Michael Mckelvy" wrote: Maybe the working poor are the ones who need job creation the most. Then you should be supporting more and larger tax cuts. Yeah, all of those poor people really need capital gains tax reduction. No but the middle class do, since they are a significant percentage of those invested in the stock market. Oh no reality again. Kryptonite. |