Sick of the term “superhero”. Are we little kids back in the 1970s watching the Superfriends on Saturday morning cartoons? Or grown men and women putting food on the table?
It’s a pretty pathetic time in our history when thank you for showing up and not quitting is grounds for a large raise. Good for Krogers for closing these stores rather than giving into these ridiculous demands.
Yea…We were essential workers and we have a sign at the entrance at my job…“Hero’s work here”…It’s embarrassing really.
Mine too. It’s ridiculous IMO.
From the link:
Garcia did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment, but after the City Council advanced the ordinance in December, he tweeted, “When large corporations don’t step up to provide hazard pay for grocery workers, we will step in and protect these heroes.” He added, “Thank you to the Long Beach City Council for adopting the emergency $4 hazard pay for grocery workers.”
Why not just give them an extra $20/hr? All companies should just leave it up to politicians to decide what they can and should pay their employees.
“When large corporations don’t step up to provide hazard pay for grocery workers, we will step in and protect these heroes.” He added, “Thank you to the Long Beach City Council for adopting the emergency $4 hazard pay for grocery workers.”
And now they don’t have jobs and people don’t have a grocery store.
Yeah, that is embarrassing.
My company was deemed essential at the beginning of all of this COVID stuff. We never knew the risks at that time but still did what we had to do. So did a lot of people.
Government interference caused this.
Wages have been left up to white majority politicians in many societies, and here are the direct consequences:
It’s pretty pathetic when actual extraordinary individuals, like Captain Sullenberger and the passengers on the 9-1-1 flights whose actions diverted the hijackers from their intended targets, are regarded on the same level as grocery store workers punching the clock.
Yep. 
Think the libs will ever comprehend the connection? 
Wait for it…
“there are other factors you’re not looking at!”
“the source”
I’d be embarrassed too, given the employer’s struggle with proper grammar.
Yep … and it’s the epitome of libs in government being generous with other people’s money.
Cue the food desert wailing…
You were so close…
Spelling , punctuation, and capitalization are all part of writing. … English grammar applies to the language, whether it’s written or spoken; but spelling , punctuation, and capitalization are strictly for writing. Just modern technology, not grammar .
If businesses close because of 4 dollars an hours extra wage paid.
It was a borderline store to begin with.
How bout all the other grocery stores who are ponying up the extra 4.
How come they aren’t closing.
Allan
Because they had no problem with these ridiculous demands, maybe?
Krogers made the cjyto close rather than give into this nonsense.
So what the narrative behind these two Kroger stores closing leaving towns without a grocery store.
It’s certainly can’t be hero pay.
That’s just an excuse to close low performing stores.
Allan
I remember when Kroger left the Pittsburgh market in 1984 over union wages.
Kroger said all its supermarkets in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Westmoreland counties are involved. The stores have been closed since Jan. 15, when members of Local 23 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union went on strike after rejecting concessions the company had said were essential for survival in the Pittsburgh market. The local represents 2,845 Kroger store clerks and meat cutters.
It is a razor thin margin business and Kroger appears to know what they are doing and have been doing so for a long time.
The better choice would be to get Walmart and Amazon unionized to level the labor costs and not legislate wages.
It’s so easy to be a politician. They never have to suffer the consequences of their decisions.
That has to be the most inane statement in the thread so far. 
Maybe inane but true.
You would not close a super profitable business because you are forced to raise pay.
Allan
