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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 ::
How a union can lose its clout By Dale Kasler
The UFCW fears that supermarket wages, which average about $13 an hour in Southern California, could be driven to the $8-an-hour range that retailing consultants say is paid by Wal-Mart.
That would track what happened in meatpacking: When IBP was founded in the early 1960s, packinghouse workers earned 16 percent more than the average American factory worker, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today they earn 25 percent less.
'They had gone from being very well paid, the kind of manufacturing job that fathers handed down to sons -- in a 30-year period they became underpaid,' said Donald Stull, a University of Kansas anthropologist who's studied meatpacking workers.------------------------------------------- posted 7:05 AM :: reference link ::
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