Union Basically Proposes Gov't Run Grocery/Drug Stores?
By Warner Todd Huston Posted in Economy — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It sure seems as if a union head has basically proposed that the government take over grocery and drug stores in New York. John R. Durso, president of Local 338 of the Retail Worker Department Store/United Food and Commercial Workers union, wrote in a recent public statement that the people cannot expect stores to serve the public and that government should step in with more legislation.
A recent report by the New York state's attorney threatened a lawsuit against the drug store chains Rite Aid and CVS after an investigation found that expired goods were being sold at stores in New York. This prompted the union chief to say that the investigation “proves that we shouldn’t rely on drug stores to provide necessary food items to the community.”
Durso's union supports a program of incentives and tax breaks to encourage development of supermarkets, which isn't necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. But, what his statement said could easily be taken to further ends than mere tax breaks. If we cannot expect businesses to serve the public, what is left if not a take over of supermarkets and drug stores by government?
Imagine the big government aspect of this sort of idea? Big brother responsible for feeding us? What would follow, of course, would be price fixing and rationing once price fixing began to negatively affect the market. Ah, but the union thugs would have life easy if this all happened. After all, one apparently cannot be fired from a government job!
Once again the lesson is that unions are antithetical to the public weal, wholly detrimental to good government.
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I've found forms in government offices that were sometimes two or three years out of date... and filling one of them out when you should have had a different one (say, for taxes) could result in jail time and fines.
I'm sorry, but that's usually worse than even taking a roll of the dice on six-month-expired yogurt.
"Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant." - Michael Fisk
Let me tell ya... when I think "Model of Efficiency" . .. I definately think Government.
Every time I go to the DMV, or hear about my father's day at the VA, all I think is "Man, why can't these guys run more stuff?"
I know that the government controlled retail stores in the USSR...... I think that worked out for them fairly well.... big selection of products to buy and no real waiting lines for people.... fresh products.... It was good all around I'd wager.
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Wait until you have fully defined roles keeping the store management from being able to assign the task of checking for outdated products to anyone available.
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