With these comments by Dave Dillon , I have to wonder what the plan is for this company as contract talks come up for us and other locals.
Mr Dillon said Kroger intended to continue covering all full-time employees but maintained that parts of the law were simply not workable.
If you look through the economics of the penalty the companies pay versus the cost to provide coverage, the penaltys too low, or the cost of coverage is too high, or the combination is wrong, he said.
Will we become the next walmart as far as the way they treat the workers? Will they cut their costs by eliminating full timers, service to customers , pre-cut meats, vendor and contract labor or any other ways to save a buck and increase his 66% pay increase he had last year.
At least we have a union to represent us as opposed to no voice at all.
Dave Dillon is a huge part of the problem but.......just like all the other ****ed bull**** that is wrong in this country....No one wants to stand up and fix this ****. Too damned busy with their self absorbed asses they just cant be bothered. The goverment and corporate America realizes this because they created this **** for their own gain. They only people that matter in this country are the wealthy and the trashy ass ghetto filth that we as the working class have to support. We get **** taken away from our overworked and increasingly underpaid asses and the rich keep gettin richer and the trash gets more food to eat every month and gets to have all latest cell phones and gadgets that we cant afford.
Why can't Obama care be over ruled by the working class citizens.
What you fail to realize is that you could have. We did it with SOPA and if you felt so strongly about it you could have called your state representative but I bet you didn't do that.
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I work in th emeat department and i can tell you that information spreads freely amounst us, the factory for "centralized" cutting is already being built before the company even announced that our zone is going to it.
Kroger is already aiming to eliminate full time workers by 2014 or 2015. About a month and a half ago, I saw a segment on KTV in the break room stating that it was the company's goal to only employ part-time help within the next couple of years. Kroger, like a lot of large companies out there, is looking to exploit loopholes in the health care law in order to avoid having to take some of the huge profit it makes and investing it in its workforce. Corporate officers and upper-level management hate it when any one threatens their ridiculously huge paychecks and bonuses, so rather than do the right thing and treat their workforce right, they're going to look to make the lives of their employees (the ones making them all the money) even harder in the coming years.
I can't imagine what it is going to be like in 3-4 years at Kroger. I am sure we will be on Wave 32 of Key Retailing by then. I think Kroger will eliminate as many positions as they can to save money!
Kroger has to continue scheduling and providing benefits according to it's CBAs in union stores. How Obamacare will affect negotiations remains to be seen, but eliminating full timers would be nearly impossible under the language currently used in every contract I've ever seen. They can't even lower a full time person below 40 in most of them, without laying off part timers in inverse order of seniority.
Meaning, under every contract I've ever seen (if not all of them), a department with 2 full time people and 4 part timers is required to give the full timers 40 hours, unless they've laid off all 4 part timers. As long as we make sure this language is followed, and it remains in CBAs going forward, Kroger would not legally be able to drop full-time workers without laying all of the part time people off, first.
