One reason that’s important is that retail groceries remain heavily dependent on their employees. They greet you, answer your questions, deal carefully and quickly with delicate perishable foods, clean up food waste that comprises a bacterial nirvana, clean endemic spills, and reorder disarranged aisles lest customers walk out or slip and fall.

Retail groceries are hotbeds for employee abuse, including abuse of managers who do as much restocking and vegetable arranging and egg counting as newbies because chains refuse adequately to staff or compensate their people.

The industry is litigating thousands of employee and manager abuse cases. Giving in to one more union effort would make life harder for the owners. Unless, that is, they actually improved working conditions, which might improve store turnover and profits. But like auto execs and the “business consultants” who advise them, they consider improving workers’ conditions to be analogous to removing their private parts with a pocketknife.

I say let Mr. Mackey spend a day with one of the retail grocery industry’s suppliers, a fish farm. Gutting several thousand catfish a day with two fifteen minute breaks might make him more empathetic. Either that or put him en route to a bad back and carpal tunnel syndrome.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a…..kris1.html

To add insult to injury, congress and the Obama admin is adhering to Davis’s line of thinking on all things Honduran.

The criminal Davis is a sage here.