The United States is in the midst of the worst spike of COVID infections since the beginning of the pandemic. There are more than 100,000 confirmed cases each day and thousands of deaths. Things are particularly bad in Texas, where more than 11,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID.
Greed, greed, GREED! So while Kroger’s CEO and share holders are getting richer and richer and RICHER, their employees are still making lousy wages and getting sick and worse because they are too irresponsible to mandate mask wearing and limit the number of customers in their stores? However, they care enough about said employees to spend a good deal of money on “thanking” them via TV ads. Hmm...sounds like a pathetic marketing ploy to me. It’s time we all WAKE UP and hold these companies responsible for their blatantly unethical behavior. Their businesses need to be outed on all media, sued, fined and shamed. How are we even able to look at ourselves when we allow this dangerous and destructive ‘business as usual’ while so many working class people are directly suffering because of it?
Everybody (& that means EVERYBODY regardless of their skin color, their financial situation, their age, their sexual orientation, etc.) needs to have access to affordable healthcare. Their workplace should ensure they are not exposed to unsafe conditions. The COVID-19 virus doesn’t care about whether or not you have money, it’s looking for a host so it can replicate. Until everyone is taken care of, we are all at risk. America needs to improve/change the way healthcare is accessed. If this pandemic doesn’t make you aware of the healthcare problems we have here in America, then I don’t know what will. However, I’m not holding my breath.
Congress and the corporations have long engaged in a codependent parasitic relationship. This pandemic has sparked a battle of out-greeding and out-manipulating each other.
We are the ones who ALWAYS pay the price of their tantrums. We literally NEVER win. They know this so they control the easily poked media to make sure we blame each other more than we blame them.
Kroger is a filthy beast. My son worked for them in College. Greed and the 1%. Those getting the payout on the stock dividend are doing it on the backs of the employees on the frontline making the money for them.
We are seeing the Greed on both sides of the
Congressional aisle through fresh eyes. And our elected and their response makes them burn like tear gas.
Write your Congressional reps. Tell them to serve you, not their wallets!
The most galling part of this story is that Kroger chose to permanently close two locations because they didn’t want to pay the employees at those locations an additional $4/hr for 120 days as mandated by local government. They would rather endure the costs of shutting down both locations plus the loss of all future revenue generated by those locations rather than paying the employees at those two locations. Kroger’s decision was despicable, spiteful, and the employees were caught in the middle.
So, I realize this is a minor detail, but this article says "it's been 107 days since May 17" which immediately jumped out at me because it's so clearly off. I believe the correct number is 261 days.
I don’t think Kroger is going to score well on this year’s Fortune magazine 100 Best Companies To Work For list. I don’t think they care about it, either.
Greed, greed, GREED! So while Kroger’s CEO and share holders are getting richer and richer and RICHER, their employees are still making lousy wages and getting sick and worse because they are too irresponsible to mandate mask wearing and limit the number of customers in their stores? However, they care enough about said employees to spend a good deal of money on “thanking” them via TV ads. Hmm...sounds like a pathetic marketing ploy to me. It’s time we all WAKE UP and hold these companies responsible for their blatantly unethical behavior. Their businesses need to be outed on all media, sued, fined and shamed. How are we even able to look at ourselves when we allow this dangerous and destructive ‘business as usual’ while so many working class people are directly suffering because of it?
Everybody (& that means EVERYBODY regardless of their skin color, their financial situation, their age, their sexual orientation, etc.) needs to have access to affordable healthcare. Their workplace should ensure they are not exposed to unsafe conditions. The COVID-19 virus doesn’t care about whether or not you have money, it’s looking for a host so it can replicate. Until everyone is taken care of, we are all at risk. America needs to improve/change the way healthcare is accessed. If this pandemic doesn’t make you aware of the healthcare problems we have here in America, then I don’t know what will. However, I’m not holding my breath.
Congress and the corporations have long engaged in a codependent parasitic relationship. This pandemic has sparked a battle of out-greeding and out-manipulating each other.
We are the ones who ALWAYS pay the price of their tantrums. We literally NEVER win. They know this so they control the easily poked media to make sure we blame each other more than we blame them.
Country is a cesspool being burned down by greed.
Kroger is a filthy beast. My son worked for them in College. Greed and the 1%. Those getting the payout on the stock dividend are doing it on the backs of the employees on the frontline making the money for them.
We are seeing the Greed on both sides of the
Congressional aisle through fresh eyes. And our elected and their response makes them burn like tear gas.
Write your Congressional reps. Tell them to serve you, not their wallets!
The most galling part of this story is that Kroger chose to permanently close two locations because they didn’t want to pay the employees at those locations an additional $4/hr for 120 days as mandated by local government. They would rather endure the costs of shutting down both locations plus the loss of all future revenue generated by those locations rather than paying the employees at those two locations. Kroger’s decision was despicable, spiteful, and the employees were caught in the middle.
So, I realize this is a minor detail, but this article says "it's been 107 days since May 17" which immediately jumped out at me because it's so clearly off. I believe the correct number is 261 days.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Days+since+May+17%2C+2020
I don’t think Kroger is going to score well on this year’s Fortune magazine 100 Best Companies To Work For list. I don’t think they care about it, either.