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Originally Posted by smoore
here: http://www.ufcw.org/take_action/walm...onbenefits.cfm
I mistyped, they don't offer reasonable health care. I should have proofread that post better.
What manufacturers did you work for? I want to know so I can research them. If they aren't paying a decent wage they can be sanctioned. |
Wow, that $218 a month is a bargain!! We pay $105 a WEEK and have a yearly deductible of $2000.
Neither company is in business now. Heide Inc paid its workers less than $9 an hour making and packaging candy(as of when I left, 1992). As an accounting clerk in the office and not in the union, when I left I was making $10.25 an hour. They were bought out by Nestle (I think) several years ago. The second, Aberdeen Mfg, is/was a men's clothing manufacturer that supplied suits and coats to major department stores such as Macy's, Penney's, etc. It'd be impossible in that case to know what you're buying because the names were of the stores it supplied to.
The problem with sticking to a buy union ideal is that you might not be aware if there was a union or what the workers were paid, etc. "Made in the USA" is not an indication of fairness, decent wages or unionization.
Union in itself is not an indication of fairness.