Seniors Support Workers at Rite Aid Lancaster Distribution Center

Old Farts Kicking Some Corporate Ass!

Last spring close to 700 workers at Rite Aid’s distribution center in Lancaster, California won the right to bargain for justice on the job. They fought a vicious anti-union campaign for two years in order to put an end to punishing production quotas and mandatory overtime piled on 10-hour shifts. They had endured working in hot desert summers with no air conditioning and no job security. In early March 2008 they won union with ILWU despite Rite Aid's anti-union tactics and joined International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 26.

But now management reportedly won't negotiate with them and is harassing those folks active with the union. Since the election victory, Rite Aid has continued to target pro-union employees with unfair discipline and firings; about 50 workers have been terminated in the last 6 months and that the company has made illegal, unilateral changes with regard to production standards and worker breaks.

Last week senior citizens from California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) brought public attention to the harassment and unfair labor practices of the Rite Aid distribution center in Lancaster with a rally in front of a Rite Aid store in San Francisco at Van Ness and Market streets.

Read more here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/19/18545516.php

And here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/18/18545343.php

Veiw uncharted.ca discussion: http://forums.uncharted.ca/viewtopic.php?p=15277#15277