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ROGER DODGER	2012-07-27 11:20 AM
Wow will I don't blame them they are underpaid as most servants are in Santa Barbara it's time for a little vacation.
COMMENT 302181	2012-07-27 11:22 AM
The union motto: For everyone in the union, everything, for anyone outside the union, nothing.
COMMENT 302185	2012-07-27 11:26 AM
I'm underpaid too and work my butt off but I still have to pay for my dependents to be on my insurance, it's just how it is. They should be thrilled that they have had that coverage for this long because medical insurance is soooo expensive!
COMMENT 302188	2012-07-27 11:33 AM
If they strike I will go out of my way to shop their.
COMMENT 302189P	2012-07-27 11:36 AM
188, care to share why?
COMMENT 302194	2012-07-27 11:42 AM
Good luck with the strike. Quick google says company is doing well.
COMMENT 302202	2012-07-27 11:52 AM
189, the question is not why but what. To shop their WHAT?
ROGER DODGER	2012-07-27 11:56 AM
@185 Find another job Bakersfield might be hiring.
COMMENT 302214	2012-07-27 12:09 PM
181 - For the union BOSSES everything, for the members crumbs, for the outsiders nothing.
COMMENT 302227P	2012-07-27 12:45 PM
214 hit it right on the nose. Union leaders are employees of the union. If everyone is not kept dissatisfied then there is no need for the union and no need to pay dues and they lose their jobs. What do you think is the leadership's primary goal. Look what the unions did to the supermarket workers. The leaders kept their jobs and the workers lost out. If everyone had to pay for their own health insurance, or for that matter, even try to get it if anything has EVER been wrong with them they, would not be so opposed to Obama care. I had two years between when I had a group policy and when I went on Medicare to contend with. Very hard to get any insurance and then it was high premiums that were for disaster coverage only. Be glad the company is paying for employee coverage and making it possible to get family coverage as part of the group that you pay for. Believe me - you are not paying nearly what someone who is not part of a large group would be paying.
COMMENT 302247	2012-07-27 01:40 PM
Who shops at Rite Aid anyway? This is a non issue.
COMMENT 302274P	2012-07-27 02:24 PM
I will be shopping at Rite Aid as well. This company should stand up for itself against the spoiled union workers. Too bad the employees don't realize that they would have a huge pay raise if they stopped paying all of those union dues. And what kind of employee union calls for a strike before submitting a counter offer. I had great insurance a few years ago but because of the rising premiums the insurance companies are charging I now have to pay more. That's life. Why should everyone outside of the union have to pay the price but not union workers? Public or private unions need to go.
COMMENT 302185	2012-07-27 02:36 PM
Wow Roger, that wasn't very nice! Lots of folks work hard and with the high costs in SB I bet few of us actually feel that we are paid what we are worth, either in our paycheck or with our benefits. Even though we feel that way we still go to work every day because we have to take care of ourselves and our families. If the local Rite Aid workers go on strike you can bet that I will make a point of shopping there to show my LACK of support for the strike.
COMMENT 302285P	2012-07-27 02:40 PM
Roger I may be wrong but you collect disability or some other form of government subsidy dont you?
ROGER DODGER	2012-07-27 02:54 PM
Yes you maybe wrong...
COMMENT 302297	2012-07-27 03:04 PM
I get my prescriptions filled there, but I guess now I'll throw some MORE of my business their way. That is, what's left AFTER I buy what I can at the new 99 cent store.
COMMENT 302304	2012-07-27 03:13 PM
Roger why so grumpy today? 285P What does anyone collecting disability, that they paid into the system while they were working, have anything to do with employee wages? The fact of the matter is that unions will allow the workers to suffer through a strike rather than commit to real contract negotiations. Do the people at the union offices forfeit their pay while the workers are on strike? Nope so they don't really have much incentive to avoid a strike. The union also needs to realize that if they demand unrealistic benefits that the company cannot sustain they will demand themselves right out of a job.
COMMENT 302308	2012-07-27 03:16 PM
I don't believe any of us know the details of the issues that are at stake in this strike vote. But, what is so wrong about workers collectively trying the better their situation -especially with the decimation of the working class over the last 30 odd years and Corporate America making record profits. Joe Vegher
COMMENT 302185	2012-07-27 03:22 PM
I finally made it to the 99 cent store today and it was packed with rude people that hung out in the center of the aisles with their carts instead of moving to one side or the other. Navigating through that store was stressful even without a cart of my own and the entire store smelled like POOP, literally! There were quite a few homeless people sitting in the walkway outside eating 99 cent store groceries too. Should be interesting to see how things develop with the store, it will probably be a good one for that element but be prepared for lots of not so great smelling homeless people shopping there.
ROGER DODGER	2012-07-27 03:25 PM
I don't know I guess I feel like going out getting drunk then stomping the Holy HELL out of someone after all I'm only scum..I get like this sometimes..I get tired of hearing the Bakersfield rap I worked my butt off to live in this stinkin town and I wished I left along time ago..Now I get to listen to the Bakerfield Scrap. I'm sorry @185 I aien't perfect and yea I'm disabled @85P iI worked for it I'm not doing anything illegal. And I'm not less then either I weight 360 pounds I wish I was less than. Sorry @185 for being a jerk.
COMMENT 302320	2012-07-27 03:34 PM
2194.... a $29Mil. loss last quarter is not doing okay by any stretch of the imagination. A union strike is all the more reason to not shop there again. If everybody had the union benefits these guys have none of us would be able to afford to live here... except the 1%. Am I the only one who noticed how fast grocery prices increase in union shops in particular? Hooray for the 99¢ Store. Sorry but unions have outlived their usefulness and now only serve to bleed an already sagging and sad economy. More money in these employees pockets means higher costs for the consumer which only serves to further sag the economy. Econ 101 folks.
COMMENT 302330	2012-07-27 03:44 PM
Except those employees are also consumers who spend their money elsewhere, thus driving the economy. Trying to break complex issues down into simple ones doesn't really work because details slip through the cracks.
COMMENT 302331	2012-07-27 03:44 PM
320 It makes more sense to shop at the store during the strike if your issue is with the union. The store is facing large losses and the selfish union is telling the employees they should strike instead of working with the store to make things better. The union tells their members anyone outside of the union is a scab and obviously beneath them. Who are these people?! Maybe Rite aid should just go non-union. I would shop there if they did. Prices would be lower as well.
COMMENT 302202	2012-07-27 03:49 PM
Roger, don't get down on yourself because of the stupid remarks. Be like a duck, and let the negative remarks slid off your back like water.
COMMENT 302339	2012-07-27 04:00 PM
Sy, those employees can work for the store without the union. Saying things cannot be handled or changed because they are too complex does nothing to improve circumstances.
COMMENT 302341	2012-07-27 04:04 PM
That wasn't my point, MSSB. :( Of course they can work for the store without the union, I was just trying to point out that money in union employees' pockets doesn't necessarily slow the economy down seeing as how union employees are consumers too and thus serve to boost the economy via their spending.
COMMENT 302356	2012-07-27 04:41 PM
Rite aid just called me for a job interview!!! Wooooooo
ROGER DODGER	2012-07-27 04:59 PM
Cross the line...Thank Dog for medication I think I'm going to l;isten to some Black Sabbith now Bye..
COMMENT 302392	2012-07-27 08:03 PM
Comment 308 is right on. You people who are making negative comments about this subject have no idea what is being offered or taken away from these workers. They just want a fair wage for a days work and their salary is a combination of a benefit package and an hourly wage.
COMMENT 302202	2012-07-27 08:05 PM
A paycheck that doesn't bounce is a good deal.
COMMENT 302434	2012-07-28 06:22 AM
@392 I wouldn't worry about it. The anti-American commenters are all trust fund babies who never worked an honest day in their lives.
COMMENT 302474P	2012-07-28 09:43 AM
It's not the employer, the unions, nor the employees. Why is no one placing the responsible culprits under the magnifying glass here: The Insurance, Hospital, Drug mfgr's and associated Health Care Industries who are driving the madness of out-of-control insurance costs??? They keep us sick to benefit themselves.
COMMENT 302507	2012-07-28 10:58 AM
Bust those picket lines. This is how you stop greed. Far more employee union greed combined than any bad guys on Wall Street. Run the numbers and what you particularly as shoppers and taxpayers have to pay to feed that greed.
COMMENT 302513	2012-07-28 11:11 AM
How 'bout that financial crisis, 507? Those darn employee unions and their greed causing a collapse in our financial system. Oh wait.
RHS	2012-07-28 03:28 PM
Working people have been screwed by our system for the past 40 years. Middle class incomes have declined while the rich get richer (that is the executives and management of RiteAid and its ilk). If and when they can figure out how to export service jobs they will do it without a pang. Meanwhile they squeeze the workers and threaten them with hiring cheap labor from those who even more desperate after the messing over they got from Wall Street and the takeover folks. We need more strikes, more demonstrations and more evidence that we know who is wrecking this country--Bain Capital is not alone.
SBITIZEN	2012-07-29 12:08 PM
Unions, Wall Street, Greed also could be Rite Aid is not as nice and can't compete against bigger national chains who have moved into its markets
COMMENT 302813	2012-07-29 02:35 PM
Placing items on shelves and running a UPC label across a scanner is simply not a job that demands or deserves much pay. Period. It's a job that any single individual in this country can easily do so anything above minimum wage should be considered icing on the cake. You aren't in a position to demand anything if you can be replaced by any individual in America with 1 day of training.
COMMENT 302974	2012-07-30 12:24 PM
All three SB Rite-Aids are horrible scum pits whose workers drag themselves around like they absolutely hate being there. The one in Goleta is marginally better. Time for CVS to buy out Rite-Aid.
COMMENT 302507	2012-07-30 06:17 PM
Actually it was those darn liberal housing programs and the ACORN thugs that forced the Liars Loan banking meltdown. Keep peeling back the stinking onion until you get to the core: failed progressive housing agenda caused the eventual meltdown. SEIU and ACORN are nuts from the same tree, so yes, it was the unions.
COMMENT 303114	2012-07-30 06:20 PM
Yeah, it couldn't have been have been deregulation or credit default swaps or rampant speculation or any of the other things, it was them darn liberals and their housing policies that caused the financial crisis! All pieces of the same pie. Blame is shared by many parties, not just one.

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