When someone says, that some days it seems like it’s hardly worth going in to work anymore they might be on to something.
The Overwaitea Food Group, part of the Jim Pattison Empire has apparently introduced a shocking demand into the debut of contract negotiations with their union the UFCW. A negotiating demand that makes you wonder whatever happened to the Canadian ideal of a full time job.
In the opening days of the quest for a new collective agreement to replace the one coming to an end in March, the grocery chain has come up with a bid to introduce a work day consisting of but two hours. As it is, grocery stores already have some of the least amount of hours available for staff in the working world, with a four hour work day provision the standard for many in the current agreement, but that it seems might be just a little too much in the way of hours for management.
It seems that Overwaitea managers having seemingly eradicated the notion of full time work at their stores, now wish to eliminate part time and move into the realm of the temp worker.
At two hours a day at the going rate of 8.50, it raises the question as to how many potential employees they might actually find knocking on their doors. At some point even those that are desperately seeking work, must decide that there surely must be better options out there, offering if not full time hours a much closer resemblance of that now seemingly out of reach dream.
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In a strange little way, the kings of capitalism in the grocery world may actually be bordering on a sense of socialism that would make the gang at Animal Farm quite at home. Providing for a place where all are equal, but some (management) are more equal than others.
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With a plan that calls for two hours a day, it’s almost to the point where everyone in town could have a job, equal in hours, equal in pay and equal in suffering as they scramble to make ends meet.
Where all of this reinvention of the workday goes to is anyone’s guess, but perhaps a fully automated store, complete with scanners, self serve cashier terminals and bag your own groceries is like Utopia for the negotiating team on the management side.
Makes you wonder what former NDP premier Glen Clark working as an executive vice president on the Executive team, must think about his fellow Pattison group management teams, as they make sure that the BC worker doesn't get too comfortable, let alone make a living on the grocery side of the corporate empire.
The only question for the employee or would be employee is; with a workday of two hours a day, you have to wonder if you would make enough money in the course of your onerous workday to actually be able to afford to go into work.
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Even more important for the Overseers of Overwaitea, will anyone ever make enough money again to actually be able to purchase groceries?
The Overwaitea Food Group, part of the Jim Pattison Empire has apparently introduced a shocking demand into the debut of contract negotiations with their union the UFCW. A negotiating demand that makes you wonder whatever happened to the Canadian ideal of a full time job.
In the opening days of the quest for a new collective agreement to replace the one coming to an end in March, the grocery chain has come up with a bid to introduce a work day consisting of but two hours. As it is, grocery stores already have some of the least amount of hours available for staff in the working world, with a four hour work day provision the standard for many in the current agreement, but that it seems might be just a little too much in the way of hours for management.
It seems that Overwaitea managers having seemingly eradicated the notion of full time work at their stores, now wish to eliminate part time and move into the realm of the temp worker.
At two hours a day at the going rate of 8.50, it raises the question as to how many potential employees they might actually find knocking on their doors. At some point even those that are desperately seeking work, must decide that there surely must be better options out there, offering if not full time hours a much closer resemblance of that now seemingly out of reach dream.
.
In a strange little way, the kings of capitalism in the grocery world may actually be bordering on a sense of socialism that would make the gang at Animal Farm quite at home. Providing for a place where all are equal, but some (management) are more equal than others.
.
With a plan that calls for two hours a day, it’s almost to the point where everyone in town could have a job, equal in hours, equal in pay and equal in suffering as they scramble to make ends meet.
Where all of this reinvention of the workday goes to is anyone’s guess, but perhaps a fully automated store, complete with scanners, self serve cashier terminals and bag your own groceries is like Utopia for the negotiating team on the management side.
Makes you wonder what former NDP premier Glen Clark working as an executive vice president on the Executive team, must think about his fellow Pattison group management teams, as they make sure that the BC worker doesn't get too comfortable, let alone make a living on the grocery side of the corporate empire.
The only question for the employee or would be employee is; with a workday of two hours a day, you have to wonder if you would make enough money in the course of your onerous workday to actually be able to afford to go into work.
.
Even more important for the Overseers of Overwaitea, will anyone ever make enough money again to actually be able to purchase groceries?
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