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dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - NewtonMP2100 - 02-04-2021
......don't want to pay extra $4/hr......
Kroger shutting stores to avoid giving workers "hazard pay"
.....Kroger is closing two stores in California rather than pay grocery workers an extra four dollars an hour for working at the nation's largest supermarket chain during the coronavirus pandemic. The company blamed a decision by local officials who recently approved a temporary wage increase for some supermarket employees.
Kroger said it will close the stores, a Ralphs and a Food 4 Less, in April because of the law, passed in January by the Long Beach city council. With a handful of cities across California weighing whether to mandate "hazard pay" for grocery workers, Kroger also warned that it could shut more stores.
Long Beach last month became the first city in California to approve a hazard pay ordinance, with the law requiring grocery stores with at least 300 workers nationwide and more than 15 employees within Long Beach to pay an extra $4 an hour for a 120-day period.
Research has found that frontline employees face higher risks of coronavirus exposure at work. Such workers are also more likely to be Black, Hispanic or Native American, populations that have suffered higher rates of COVID-19.
As hazard pay for many grocery workers has lapsed, they continue to face risk on the job, with the pandemic still rampaging and as some patrons continue to disregard safety mandates like wearing a face mask. At least 134 grocery workers have died of COVID-19, and more than 28,700 have been exposed to a positive case, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers, a union that represents 1.3 million workers including 55,000 at Kroger........
no hazard pay......for you.....and you......?!
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - bfd - 02-04-2021
Swine.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - RgrF - 02-04-2021
LA City Council says "we'll do the same thing" and they did - where will Kroger move to now? Bakersfield might welcome you.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - vision63 - 02-04-2021
RgrF wrote:
LA City Council says "we'll do the same thing" and they did - where will Kroger move to now? Bakersfield might welcome you.
They can do whatever they want. Who can stop them? They don't care about the hazard pay. They really don't. They do want to shut down stores though. They want to shut down hundreds of them.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - RgrF - 02-04-2021
vision63 wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
LA City Council says "we'll do the same thing" and they did - where will Kroger move to now? Bakersfield might welcome you.
They can do whatever they want. Who can stop them? They don't care about the hazard pay. They really don't. They do want to shut down stores though. They want to shut down hundreds of them.
When a company becomes to big to ignore the SoCal market, it's just to big to be justifiable.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - vision63 - 02-04-2021
RgrF wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=RgrF]
LA City Council says "we'll do the same thing" and they did - where will Kroger move to now? Bakersfield might welcome you.
They can do whatever they want. Who can stop them? They don't care about the hazard pay. They really don't. They do want to shut down stores though. They want to shut down hundreds of them.
When a company becomes to big to ignore the SoCal market, it's just to big to be justifiable.
Ain't nothing you or me are going to do about it. Amazon and Walmart is cleaning their clock. It's harder for them to shut down stores in California because they have union contracts. That's not a problem most other places. They'll use any excuse to pare down stores. This Long Beach hazard pay thing gave them a good excuse to do just that. Once the pandemic is over, they'll be back to scrappin.
Safeway/Albertsons/Vons (same company) is suffering the same fate.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - RgrF - 02-04-2021
As soon as the UBER initiative passed, they laid off all their drivers.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - vision63 - 02-04-2021
RgrF wrote:
As soon as the UBER initiative passed, they laid off all their drivers.
Why pay drivers when Doordash will do it for free? Regardless of the outcome of the initiative (which would have succeeded if they limited it to rideshare and not every type of gig work/contracting).
Think about all the times you went into an Albertsons or a Vons and it was nearly devoid of customers. Pre-pandemic. In SoCal, these Mexican grocery chains (Superior, Northgate, El Super etc., are taking a lot of their business too. They're more focused. We're already seeing large shopping centers half empty. Stores long shut down. OSH shut down. The entire chain.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - sekker - 02-04-2021
I have no idea how grocery stores are not $$ printing presses during the pandemic.
Re: dookes of hazard?!.....Kroger closes 2 stores, rather than pay employees 'hazard pay'....... - deckeda - 02-04-2021
sekker wrote:
I have no idea how grocery stores are not $$ printing presses during the pandemic.
Even the nicer ones employ teens and young adults. It’s not a business model that rewards adult earners unless you’re a manager or exec. So when change needs to happen fast, they can’t/won’t.
I keep thinking that the self checkouts grocers pioneered would take off even more by now. The large hardware store chains obviously got the hint. But instead it’s mostly empty checkout lanes unless it’s Thanksgiving. Why any shareholder allows stores to be built that way, with $0 sales/ per sq ft in those areas, is a mystery.