Friday, October 31, 2003
You cheated!
Silly Berkeley Bowl workers, unions are for people who don't use their college degrees to work in a grocery store.
Both The Daily Cal and The Daily Planet cover it, and the result was NO, 119 to 70.
One hundred and nineteen employees voted against forming a union. Only 70 voted in favor of it, delivering the store’s management a comfortable victory.
Geez, here we go again. Someone needs to beat the Daily Cal staff with the parallelism stick. Regardless of the fact that "One hundred and nineteen" is not how you write 119 is words (properly, it would be one hundred nineteen), if you are going to write it in words, you have to write "70" in words, too! Or, alternatively, write them both in numbers. But there's no way you can write one in numbers, one in words, and call it proper English.
"There were five languages we had to translate to get our message out," said cashier Irami Osei-Frimpong, one of the leading union organizers. "The only message they had to get across was fear and intimidation."
That has to be the lamest excuse I've ever heard. "We had too many languages to write in!"
"Their goal was to create a partnership," Plague said. "If I worked here, I would probably quit right now."
Yeah, I wouldn't want the plague working in my grocery store, either.
Meyer and others union supporters attributed their defeat to a strong anti-union campaign.
“I definitely think that if we had voted two weeks ago before their campaign I think it would have been different,” he said.
Before the decision to file for an election, the union had signed up 70 percent of the employees on union authorization cards. They said the steep decline in support could only have come from the company’s campaign.
They say it as if there's something wrong with it. "When people only heard our side of the argument, they were supportive of us. Once they got a chance to hear both sides of the argument, they reconsidered. Management should be ashamed for making their argument." Yeah, definitely.
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