Worker to Worker: Call to Action:

Save-on Foods (S.O.F) Workers need your support!

Save-On-Foods'(Overwaitea Food Group in British Columbia, Canada) began an attack on working people by arbitrarily BANNING WATER at WORKSTATIONS.

Workers are being given conflicting reasons as to why the employer has suddenly dusted off a long since dead and archaic company policy.

Store management claims that the water ban is a *customer service* issue.  S.O.F's Head office claims it's a *cross-contamination* issue.

Workers claim that neither explanation holds any WATER!!

So the question is why? Why has Save-On-Foods (OFG) decided to
brutalize it's already demoralized workers at this time?

1) Is there a legitimate health risk to the public if workers are
permitted to carry and drink personal water bottles?

2) Do personal water bottles present a greater "cross-contamination" risk than does handling customer food orders and money simultaneously without proper cross-contamination prevention measures in place?

3) Do personal water bottles present a greater "cross-contamination" risk than does raw chicken on check-out belts without sanitization measures available?

4) Is there, or has there been a public outcry from retail customers to curtail the use of personal water bottles by retail workers?

Or - is this yet another in the chain of attacks on retail workers by
greedy employers in their bid to control, intimidate and keep workers in their low-wage, no benefit place?

British Columbia Save-on-Foods workers have not been made aware of any customer outcry or even a whimper. S.O.F workers are not nor have they been informed, trained or equipped in any cross-contamination prevention workshops. Except for the NO WATER while you toil rule - it's retail business as usual!

At this time we are calling on you to take action. Help restore
Save-On-Foods workers' right to have a drink of water! If you are
concerned and wish to help then please click on the flyer link, print
and fill it out and sent it to one (or all) of the stores and/or
Save=on-Foods head office:

We understand that corporate's biggest fear is bad publicity. We can make it happen by flooding the Save-On-Foods's mailboxes. To take action please click on, print and fill out the following flyer.

The flyer:
 http://groceryworkers.org/saveonfoods-management.pdf/download

Please use your name (first is fine) and please list the area you are sending from. Save-On-Foods needs to know that the world knows and cares.

Please remember that if it can happen to S.O.F workers - it can happen to you next!

Addresses:

Save-on-Foods
400 - 32555 London Ave
Mission, BC V2V 6M7
Phone: 604.826.9564
Fax: 604.826.2748

Corporate Office:

Overwaitea Food Group (aka Save-on-foods)

Address:
19855-92A Avenue
Langley, BC
V1M 3B6

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 7200
Vancouver, BC
V6B 4E4

(Save-on-Foods stores on-line

http://www.saveonfoods.com/stores/locations.htm)

(Check here for other creative ideas:
http://forums.uncharted.ca/viewtopic.php?t=949)

Thank-you for your support!

In Solidarity
Grocery Workers United for a Democratic Union

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/13/18447443.php