I had a couple of sick kids all week so I didn’t get a chance to grab some essential groceries all week, now that I have a chance I look online and it seems only the whole foods and rabba are the ones that are open today. Those are the two I usually avoid because of their ridiculous prices, so I was wondering why the cheaper places don’t open, and if it has anything to do with Ontario law.
Because I get a different day off in lieu, that’s what I just told you.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A untions strength comes from collective action and bargaining, not the removal of choice. You don’t happen to be an official at UFCW, do you? Because that’s exactly the kind of bullshit I’d expect to hear from those corrupt turds. “You don’t need a choice because I already made it for you!”
I don’t know. But if it’s not all the stores in the local, then it definitely didn’t come from the union, and workers are not allowed to act collectively outside the union. So it must have a been a corporate decision.
Yes, the single desk. If you give employees choice then they will offer greater and greater concessions towards the employer (accept lower pay, accept fewer holidays, accept more dangerous working conditions, etc.) to beat out the next guy, and that means the next guy gets screwed over. The union seeks to remove individual choice, instead selling the services of a collection of workers as a whole unit in an effort to level the playing field for all workers, thus giving greater power to the collective.
What choice the union decides to remove from the individual is up to each union. A union is just the people in the union, after all. It’s not some magical power that descended from the heavens. They, as a collective, can do whatever they want. But it’s easy to see how allowing the choice to work on certain holidays could become a problem for some unions and why its members would seek to have nobody work on holidays.
But that’s just it, the stores that were open appear to be in different union locals.
What’s the explanation, though? Do people in Toronto not eat on holiday Mondays? There were a handful of other locations outside of Toronto that were also closed, but they appear to be in the same union local.