<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Andy Piascik</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andypiascik@yahoo.com">andypiascik@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 4:50 PM<br>Subject: The Stop and Shop Strike: Grocery Store Workers Take on a Billion Dollar Multinational<br>To: Andy Piascik <<a href="mailto:andypiascik@yahoo.com">andypiascik@yahoo.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"> <div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15586" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div 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style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15617" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15618"><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15619" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Friends,</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15620" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15621"></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15622" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">This story about the ongoing strike at Stop and Shop was published recently at several websites. In Solidarity,</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15623" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15624"></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15625" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Andy</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15626" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15627"></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15628" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15629" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15630"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15631" style="font-size:16pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15632"> </span>Grocery Store Workers Take on a Billion
Dollar Multinational</span></b><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15633" style="font-size:12pt"></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15634" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15635" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15636" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15637"> </span>by
Andy Piascik</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15638" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15639" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15640" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15641" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15642" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15643" style="font-size:12pt">At precisely
1:00 Eastern time on the afternoon of April 11<sup id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15644">th</sup>, 31,000 workers at
253 Stop and Shop grocery stores throughout Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts
walked off their jobs. The strike came after several months of failed
negotiations in which Stop and Shop refused to retract an onerous set of
demands for the elimination of premium pay for Sunday work, major cuts to
pensions and dramatic increases in the amount workers would have to pay for
health care. </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15645" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15646" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15647" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15648"> The </span>strikers are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Truck drivers both union and
non-union have honored the picket lines by refusing to make their deliveries,
according to strikers at four picket lines in Bridgeport and Fairfield,
Connecticut. The workers at those stores also report that no union members have
crossed the picket line. Most stores are open as supervisors and a small number
of replacement workers have been stocking shelves and working cash registers
but business has taken a big hit. </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15649" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15650" style="font-size:12pt"><b id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15651">Solid Public Support</b></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15652" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15653" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15654" style="font-size:12pt">Public support
has been high and sympathetic supervisors have told strikers that the take for one
16-hour day at a store in Fairfield was a meager $2,000, a fraction of a normal
day’s business. Some stores have cut their hours because business has been so
bad. Officials and members of other unions have joined with strikers for
rallies at stores in a number of locations, including Bridgeport and Fairfield.
Virtually every elected official in the Bridgeport area as well as both US
Senators are Democrats and many have visited a picket line and/or expressed
their support for the strike, as have several Republicans from other parts of
the state. An announcement was made at a picket line yesterday that community sympathizers and merchants have established a food bank
where strikers can get free food. <span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15655"> </span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15656" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15657" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15658" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15659"> </span>From
conversations with dozens of strikers, morale of union members is high eight days in. Worker after worker expressed special gratitude for the overwhelming
public support they’ve received. Shoppers who know many of the strikers by name
from years of shopping have joined the picket lines and many have brought
coffee, doughnuts, pizzas and other food and beverages to the strikers. Media
coverage on local television stations and in the Hearst dailies that dominate
the newspaper market in Connecticut has been mostly positive.</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15660" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15661" style="font-size:12pt"><b id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15662">$2 Billion Profits in 2018</b></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15663" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15664" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15665" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15666"> </span>Amidst
the strikers’ enthusiasm, however, is an undercurrent of fear and resentment.
There has been no strike at Stop and Shop for 30 years, and that one was of
very short duration, so the vast majority of the chain’s workers are
confronting the unbridled greed of their employers in such an open way for the
first time. The Stop and Shop stores are among many owned by the Dutch
conglomerate Ahold which reported $2 billion in profits in 2018.</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15667" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15668" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15669" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15670"> </span>Despite
such profits and despite the fact that Stop and Shop is far and away the
dominant grocery store chain in New England (and which also owns stores in New
York and New Jersey that are covered by a different contract and thus not on
strike), Ahold is demanding significant givebacks. The cuts in pensions and
health coverage particularly rankle the strikers; the company’s current
demands, for example, include a fourfold increase in the amount workers will
have to pay in co-payments for doctor’s visits.</span><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15671" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15672"> </span></span></div><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15673" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15674"><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15675" style="display:block;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px"><b id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15676"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15677" style="font-size:12pt">Minimum
Wage Pay for New Workers <span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15678"> </span><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15679"> </span></span></b></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15680" style="display:block;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px">
</div></span></span><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15681" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15682" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15683" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15684"> </span>Picketers
expressed a mix of astonishment and anger that a massive company that is doing
so well would utterly refuse to share any portion of that wealth and instead
demand significant givebacks. New hires, all of whom are part-time, start at
$10.10 an hour. Stop and Shop has consciously cut the number of full-time
positions, and stipulations that the company forced through in previous
contracts make accepting a full-time promotion far less attractive than it
could be.<span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15685"> </span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15686" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15687" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15688" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15689"> </span>“It
takes years before you can even think about getting a full-time position,” said
Rafael Quiles at the picket line outside one of the stores in Fairfield. “And
if you do go full-time, the company has the right to transfer you to any store
in the state that it wants to.” He and others said the company does precisely
that in order to discourage others from seeking full-time.</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15690" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15691" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15692" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15693"> </span>“Many
people who take full-time jobs go back to part-time a short while later because
they don’t want to be moved to a store far away,” added Gin Palladino, a
ten-year veteran who lives just a few blocks from the store where she works.
“I’d rather work part-time here and get another part-time job close to home
than have to travel a long distance to work full-time.”</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15694" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15695" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15696" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15697"> </span>Kizzy
Lewis is a full-timer who has worked in 12 stores in her 25 years at Stop and
Shop. “They had me working as far away as Stamford and at other stores all over
Fairfield County,” she said. “After all these years, I hope this is my last
one.” Lewis also ridiculed the gas allotment the company pays for those it
transfers, pointing out that the worker is responsible for the first 15 miles
both to and from work. </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15698" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15699" style="font-size:12pt"><b id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15700">Workers Struggling Amidst Fabulous Wealth</b></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15701" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15702" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15703" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15704"> </span>For
many workers, hourly wages that are equal to or just a little above the federal
minimum do not go far. Consider that Fairfield County is one of the wealthiest
and most expensive areas in the country where the contrast between the Super
Rich who live in places like New Canaan and Greenwich and workers at Stop and
Shop couldn’t be starker. A number of strikers live in Bridgeport, the least
expensive housing market in the area, but even rents in Bridgeport can be as
high as $1,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. For people making $10.10
per hour, that is out of reach. People spoke of co-workers well into their 20s
who live with their parents or other family members because they cannot afford
to live on their own. </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15705" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15706" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15707" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15708"> </span>As
with so many workers in the United States today, some of the strikers have more
than one job. One man on the picket line said he averages 65 hours a week
between his two jobs and is still barely making ends meet. A woman striker said
she’s negotiating with her boss at her other job about getting more hours if
the strike lasts.<span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15709"> </span><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15710"> </span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15711" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15712" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15713" style="font-size:12pt">It’s important
that the Stop and Shop strikers win, just as it was important that the tens of
thousands of teachers around the country won their strikes in the last year.
It’s also important, though, that workers, their supporters and allies and
union staffers who are so inclined take a long, harsh look at the state of
things. The Stop and Shop workers’ strike is essentially defensive; they are
resisting the company’s attempts at more takebacks and the union, according to
workers, is putting forward few demands of their own. So no noteworthy wage
increases or other improvements await them even if they score a complete
victory. In the short term at minimum, their lives will continue to get harder</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15714" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15715" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15716" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline;float:none;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:115%;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:48px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Winning and Seeds of
Greater Possibilities</span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15717" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15718" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15719" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> There are, however, seeds of greater
possibilities and future victories in the strength and togetherness the workers
are </span>experiencing in their strike. By virtually every
account including those by sources generally hostile to unions, workers and
strikes, the Stop and Shop strike has been overwhelming successful. The company
is losing money in a big way, for one, and the hard line it has drawn has raised
the awareness of many strikers: about their relationship to their employers,
about the power of collective action, about the power of an entire workforce withdrawing
its labor, about how perilous life in the 21<sup id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15720">st</sup> century United States
has become for the working class. <span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15721"> </span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15722" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15723" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15724" style="font-size:12pt">Speaking about
the experience of the strike thus far, one worker said the following: “Most of
us like our jobs because we have so many regular customers who make it feel
like a community and they far outnumber the customers who make our lives
difficult. What really makes it hard to like your job is not the customers who
give you a bad time but knowing that you’re getting a bad deal from the
company. The pay is too low, the benefits aren’t enough, working on weekends is
mandatory, all that stuff. And then to see that they want to cut our pensions
even further, make us pay more if we go to the doctor, cut Sunday premium pay
and give us nothing in return for all that … it’s too much. All these people
you see on this picket line and all the other picket lines at all the other
Stop and Shop stores, none of them is ever going to forget this.” </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15725" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15726" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15727" style="font-size:12pt">Asked if he
meant the togetherness of the strikers or the conduct of the company, he said
simply, “Both.” <span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15728"> </span></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15729" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15730" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0.5in;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15731" style="font-size:12pt">Perhaps one big
lesson that can reverberate far and wide beyond Stop and Shop is the power of
the strike. After years and years where the number of strikes dwindled to a
pitifully small number, accompanied by a barrage of negativity from media and
political elites, workers are beginning to see that it is one of the most effective
ways to fight back. That’s true of teachers, nurses and other healthcare
workers, electrical workers at Wabtec in Erie, grocery store workers throughout
southern New England. Equally large challenges will be to bring that fighting
spirit and solidarity into the workplace and the union hall as well as for
workers from a variety of workplaces both union and non-union to build
organizations of mutual support where they can also strategize about how to
build a different kind of society.</span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15732" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15733" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15734" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15735" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">
</div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15736" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><i id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15737"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15738" style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Bridgeport
native</span><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15739"> Andy
Piascik is a long-time activist and award-winning author whose most recent book
is the novel </span></i><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15740" style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15741" style="word-spacing:0px">In Motion<i id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15742">. He can be
reached at <a href="mailto:andypiascik@yahoo.com" target="_blank">andypiascik@yahoo.com</a>.</i></span></span><span id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15743" style="font-size:12pt"></span></div><div id="m_7469759928897090384yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1555624073404_15744" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);display:block;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" dir="ltr">
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