Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forum'Morally wrong' and 'not kosher': Stop & Shop workers get support from Joe Biden and rabbis
Striking grocery workers in New England are getting a boost from politicians like former Vice President Joe Bidenand from religious leaders as they head into Passover and Easter. Biden spoke at a rally Thursday, telling the workers that This is morally wrong, whats going on around this country, and Ive had enough of it, Im sick of it and so are you.
How can they make that money, buy back all that stock and tell you theyre gonna cut your wages? Biden said, specifically addressing a key issue in the strike, in which Stop & Shop workers are being pressed to take pension and healthcare cuts, as well as cuts to Sunday and holiday overtime pay for part-time workers, even as Ahold Delhaize, the chains parent company, has gotten a big tax cut from Republicans and is putting billions of dollars into stock buybacks.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and state Treasurer Deb Goldberg, whose family founded Stop & Shop and ran it until the 1980s, also spoke at Thursdays rally. Sen. Ed Markey attended the rally, having spoken at another rally last week; Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke to striking workers last week as well.
Rabbis around New England have also boosted the strikers by telling their congregations that food bought by crossing a picket line is not kosher for Passover. The food that youre buying is the product of oppressed labor and thats not kosher, according to Boston Temple Hillel Bnai Torah Rabbi Barbara Penzner. Especially during Passover, when were celebrating freedom from slavery, thats particularly egregious.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/19/1851532/--Morally-wrong-and-not-kosher-Stop-amp-Shop-workers-get-support-from-Joe-Biden-and-rabbis
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(49,001 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,292 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He's exactly right.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)We live in a heavily Jewish populated part of New Haven so those words were effective. Our Stop and Shop store's parking lot is very empty except for those few people crossing the picket lines and those parked there to shop in other nonfood stores in the complex.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden