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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">[WS:] Not according to BLS <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.t03.htm
</a>,<br>whose data show that union membership in retail industry is 5.7% - BELOW,<br>the private sector average of 7.9%.</blockquote><div><br>
Yeah, retail is a big category. The BLS doesn't track for just
supermarkets. For density in supermarkets by region you have to
ask folks at individual ufcw locals. The director at the
comparatively awesome ufcw supermarket local in minnesota estimated 80%
in their region off the cuff. But in Indiana for instance it's
much lower. In Western pennsylvania it's so high (steelers don't
shop scab!) that there was a bitter protracted kroger strike there in
the 80s that resulted in kroger walking away from the region entirely.<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think that singling out retailers like Whole Foods has more to do with<br>blue collar anti-intellectualism (your use of vernacular seems symptomatic)
<br>and silly resentment and kulturkampf against "yuppies" than any serious<br>effort to advance the cause of labor in this country.<br><br><br><br>Wojtek</blockquote><div><br>
Ha ha ha! Are you seriously saying this?<br>
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It's true I find yuppie intellectuals as distasteful as the fancy
cheese they overpay for at fancy scab grocery stores. But I
believe my "blue-collar anti-intellectualism" is actually part and
parcel of "any serious effort to advance the cause of labor in this
country." <br>
wink chuckle ; )<br>
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