CAN someone tell me if all Kroger owned stores are union? Because In California upper management is spreading propaganda that this was caused by the latest UFCW union contract.
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Kroger has been bloated with middle management BS for 5yrs. Time to shed the pounds. Do they really need 5 managers doing the work of 2? I went from having a 3 tier management structure to a 10 tier structure and none of them knew their heads from their a**holes. And let's talk about wasteful time of whip walks where not one of them knew what the hell they were looking for nor ANY of the proper procedures or policies. 🙄
In a loose way, there's accuracy in that statement. The union negotiated pay increases for a majority of workers, which at a conservative estimate adds something like $5-15,000 to a store's weekly salary outgoings. That's over a quarter of a million dollars per year, per store. Add it to shrinking profit margins, and necessarily costs need to be cut somewhere.
At least - so far - the focus seems to be on relatively-unnecessary layers of management, and not broad sweeps through all employees. Yet.
Rodney got a 12 million dollar bonus last year, maybe that has something to do with it
The only way this could have been the “fault” of the Union is if the Union had recently negotiated for a large raise for its members in the last contract renewal (which I’ve been told is not the case at all). This is more than likely upper management getting more and more greedy. As if their bonuses last year weren’t big enough.
So I wonder if the truth is somewhere in the middle...
There is only one banner non-union. They didn’t have any layoffs.
Any salaried person i.e: store mangement and higher ARE NOT union.
Stores in KY are UFCW union stores. Not the management, but the hourly store associates are.
NO they are not. There are several "banners" that are "non-union".