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Judging from the grim faces of the cashiers, clerks and butchers picketing California supermarkets, you would think we were in a deep economic slump. Golden State grocery workers are on strike for the first time in 25 years, over a plan by Kroger, Safeway and other chains to shift a bigger chunk of the cost of health care to their unionized labor force of some 70,000. Under competitive siege from nonunion superstores like Wal-Mart, whose health packages for hourly workers are stingier, the grocery chains complain that they are paying 50% more on health coverage than they were...
...typical family health plan now costs $9,068 a year, and companies intend to ask workers to pay more next year, according to the latest survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The California supermarkets fear that if they don't shift more costs to employees, they will lose the ability to compete against operations like Wal-Mart, whose overall costs for goods and labor are lower. "In order for us to stay competitive, we need labor contracts that are good for both our employees and our companies," the grocers explained in newspaper...
Dubowski said that this shift is represented in the dash in the film’s title...
...great family man, very much devoted to his wife and children,” said Maureen Morrison, a HUPD officer in the Longwood Medical School campus who worked the shift before Pierce. “He was the chief cook and bottle washer there...
Morrison, who had known Pierce for 20 years, said she believed Pierce cheerily worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift throughout his 33-year HUPD career...