re: #442 jaunte

I think my local Kroger is playing a minimal staffing game to guide customers into the self-check lines at peak shopping times, so they can cut staff further and add more self-check lines.

Not true. I work for Kroger. Kroger is playing minimal staffing game to make more money, period. And union seniority rules guarantees that if a store has long term employees, and they are not the most productive employees, then they will be the employees serving you during prime time.

That’s the part of the union rules that doesn’t make any sense to me. I can see other reasons for the union, I can see where the union does actually work for the company AND the employee, but certain aspects of the seniority rules seems to me to be counter productive and harmful tot he bottom line and to certain employees.