So what is your take on this?

Date: Aug 2, 2013

So what is your take on this?

Date: Aug 2, 2013

They better be careful with what they ask for. A union will actually make them get less money because of dues. Silly people.

BagBoy · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
They better be careful with what they ask for. A union will actually make them get less money because of dues. Silly people.

not if they get higher pay out of the deal

I think it's great and I stand with them.

FU11307 · Guru

I think these people are insane for wanting $15.00 an hour. Even my local union here in Michigan was only making arguments for a minimum wage of $10.00 an hour.

4hourrush · Guru

If they honestly think they're going to get $15 an hour when the company could easily replace them with someone who would just be happy to have any job, they're insane.

Yes in a perfect world we'd all get amazing pay rates like that but it just isn't going to happen.

Date: Aug 4, 2013

Anonymous wrote:
They better be careful with what they ask for. A union will actually make them get less money because of dues. Silly people.

I'm not sure if it was a mistake to join. When I started I didn't join but I saw things in my store that made me feel like it might be worth having the union at my back just in case. I can't say they've done anything useful for me... yet.

DHB · Member

Start pay at Kroger with no experience "boosts" is $7.30 an hour. Union dues are $6.75 weekly, after a three time $10.00 initiation fee taken out your first 3 weeks. After 6 months, the .25 cent raise I told I would get, was actually only .10 cents. The union and Kroger had renegotiated the contract a few months before I was hired. What union negotiates a .10 cent every 6 month raise? This type of representation is what I call a "company union." They may put up the traditional support for the members, but when it comes down to the wire, they are catering to the company and it's interests.