I recently discovered a flyer at the front end time clock at the Metro Market at UFCW contract agreement that was posted at the left top of the wall that Kroger and Metro Market have signed a union agreement with UFCW and there is a very important proposal meeting to attend at the Hilton Garden Inn in Milwaukee on North Broadway Avenue and they will be establishing a bargaining team for CBA agreement. This is a right to work state in Wisconsin I checked if you have to still pay agency fees that are the equivalent of union due fees. From the research I have done some right to some work states may require you to pay agency fees it depends on the Union state and federal laws and other things etc. Wisconsin I think you don't have to pay any agency fees I'll have to check again. How does everyone feel about unions and what is every ones opinions on them?. I don't want may store unionized cause I worked at the Pick ' Save store in Wawatosa for about 7 years don't get me wrong at great benefits however didn't like almost having $6 dollars deducted from my check and didn't like that people that didn't want to work got to keep their jobs so unfair I did a very good job there as UC and worked hard didn't really complain all that much when I was hired there as Produce clerk worked for a month in that department for a month and then became a Utility clerk at the store. When I transferd to a non union store now majority of my co-workers are getting a Union store,
The main thing is the benefits and that the company needs to document some reason to terminate. Kroger is so evil that the union has little choice but to go along with whatever the company wants. Company wants workers healthy so medical. Company wants employees to have a place to live and enough to eat so wages. There is no law enforcement for employees so it really is all made possible by a satisfied customer, or the employees would be kept in cages. As long as the workers realize they are union members (maybe join before hire in right-to-work states?).
The main thing is the benefits and that the company needs to document some reason to terminate. Kroger is so evil that the union has little choice but to go along with whatever the company wants. Company wants workers healthy so medical. Company wants employees to have a place to live and enough to eat so wages. There is no law enforcement for employees so it really is all made possible by a satisfied customer, or the employees would be kept in cages. As long as the workers realize they are union members (maybe join before hire in right-to-work states?).
They give you health insurance and enough money to have a place to live! Where the **** you work? Ritz Carlton? I was unionized for 10 years and while it was ok at first, they widdled away our rights and increased union dues to the point that non-unionized walmart has more to offer, treats staff better, and provides much safer working conditions.
I quit shortly before my pay was cut 25%(shady as ****, health insurance went up, spousal coverage now was a additional 400$ a month, then they gave us like a .10cent raise and bragged to the media), i bitched about it for a year and saw it coming. No one cared. I didn't realize the damage kroger has done to my life, health, and happiness, until i walked out of that place and spit on the door.
I worked close enough to corporate that i saw them almost weekly. I made sure to let them know what i thought about their decisions before i left, again, not that anyone cared. Funny as hell watching their stock collapse though. Before i walked out i heard "kroger stock is going to hit 100$ and you will regret this". Only thing i regret was accepting the job in the first place.
Kroger is trash
UFCW is nothing more than a nice cover for krogers to pretend to have some type of "accountability".
There are pros and cons of the union. One nice thing is job security. Down right impossible to get fired. Most people are smart enough not to do the things that will get you fired. Better benefits, pay and equity in the work place. I've worked enough jobs to say to hell with it and just stick with one that has a union. Apparently I'm too "real" for people to handle.
There is no such thing is job security when it comes to unions they make promises that they cant keep there have union employees have come out and have honestly Have said that unions lie about job security no one in a union has never been fired regardless of their reliable or not they have been fired unions dont want anybody to know that that they do,in to make make union employees keep paying un dues so that the greed politicians are funded by them it a BIG PONZI SCHEME PERIOD!
Join the union. I worked at a non-union Kroger subsidiary, and having a buffer against management would have been nice. You'll appreciate it when the store manager comes in coked up once a week and tries to knock you down to part time or fire you.
