Strike Rant

There is a big grocery store strike in St. Louis. Everybody is all in a tizzy over it. I wish they would have just ratified the new contract instead of striking. Bunch of pampered babies. Grocery store employees already make more money than I do. At least the union ones do. The new contract would have given most of them 75 cents an hour more, plus a 20 cent bonus just for agreeing to the 75 cent raise, but they would have to pay more for their health insurance. Hello, my job doesn't provide any insurance at all. Luckily my husband gets insurance from his job. You make more money than me, get insurance and other benefits like sick days and holidays, and then want me to feel sorry for you? I don't think so. People will drive 20 minutes to save 15 cents a pound on hamburger, but think the grocery strike is justified. How are they going to feel when they have to pay more for their groceries because the stores have to cave in to the union demands? I haven't had to go shopping since the strike started, but if I was out shopping I wouldn't feel bad about crossing the picket lines. Let those people go work in my factory for a couple of weeks and then see how fast they vote to ratify their contract. I'm not worried about the strike one way or another anyway because there is a Mom and Pop grocery store in my home town that I'd rather shop in anyway. It just bugs me that people think the store owners don't deserve any kind of sympathy, it's all 'oh, those poor cashiers' I hear day after day.