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redshift
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posted 04 December 2003 02:52 AM      Profile for redshift     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
the salvation army has recently been screaming foul over organized labour boycotting kettle drives. here's a little background.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/44/118.html
http://www.cupe.ca/www/8/SunsetLodgeVictoria
then there's all those annoying social issues around lifestyle. so to those who will generously donate to help the less fortunate, perhaps a trip down to the food bank with your chequebook?
and tell a bell-ringing do-gooder that union jobs and decent wages are as much mr booth's intention as charity work ever was.

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radiorahim
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posted 04 December 2003 03:12 AM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Whatever happened to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

It seems the Sally Ann can't quite remember this one.


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Scott Piatkowski
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posted 04 December 2003 10:48 AM      Profile for Scott Piatkowski   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I haven't supported the Salvation Army ever since they intervened in the Chantal Daigle case on the side of the asshole boyfriend.
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robbie_dee
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posted 04 December 2003 10:58 AM      Profile for robbie_dee     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
On the other hand, though, I glad to see the Salvation Army's decision to pull their bell-ringers from the front of struck grocery stores in California.

Bell-Ringers Step Away from Labor Dispute (Desert Dispatch 11/30)

Practically speaking, though, Sally Ann may be withdrawing its volunteers less out of warm feelings for the union than simply because the take is so much lower. Supermarkets don't tend to do very good business when there is a massive picket line in front of them. The fact that the volunteer in the story is now standing in front of old UFCW-nemesis Walmart is hardly a ringing endorsement of solidarity.

[ 04 December 2003: Message edited by: robbie_dee ]


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redshift
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posted 04 December 2003 11:43 AM      Profile for redshift     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
the walmart-sally ann relationship is an uneasy one.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1141/8_38/81515877/p1/article.jhtml
its a full time job keeping the demons of socialist labour from the door.

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