Kroger-owned grocery chains are desperately trying to replace striking workers as employees walk off

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

the job at the height of the holiday shopping season

As employees of Kroger-owned Fred Meyer and Quality Food Center grocery stores embark on a week-long strike, the chains are scrambling to replace workers during the busy holiday season.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 555 confirmed on Friday that workers at the two Oregon-based supermarket chains will walk off the job Friday over what it said is unfair labor practices and interference in contract negotiations by Kroger, the nation's largest grocer by revenue. The strike is slated to continue through Christmas Eve, and comes on the heels of ongoing requests to increase wages and working conditions.

In response to the strike, Fred Meyer stores have begun posting signs calling for temporary associates who are "willing to cross a picket line," according to local reports. The signs state that the starting rate for the position is $17 an hour, higher than existing part-time hour wage range of $13.35 to $16.80 listed in recent job postings.

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Fred Meyer employs more than 30,000 workers across 139 stores in the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, while QFC has nearly 6,000 staffers in 62 stores in Washington. As of now, the strikes appear to be largely concentrated in Oregon stores in the cities of Portland, Newberg, Bend, and Klamath Falls, the Stateman Journal reported.

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[sanatanadharma]

1. Tell me you are a capitalist without telling me...

Tell me you are a capitalist without telling me by offering higher wages to scabs than you pay for union labor.

[KT2000]

2. I have to go there

to pick up a prescription. I sure hope there is no picket line. They need to pay more that $13.35-16.80. That is horrible.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Can you transfer the prescription?

If not for this refill of the prescription, perhaps for future refills?

[multigraincracker]

5. You can take your prescription to

just about any drug store and they will transfer it for you. I'd suggest a small Independent drug store. Shop local..

[multigraincracker]

3. Didn't Kroger just add Betsy DeVos to

its Board of Directors?

[SoCalNative]

6. No

Mrs. McTurtle.

[multigraincracker]

7. Thanks.