Comments on: The Controversy Continues: Whole Foods Quietly Gutting Employee Free Choice

By: Health Care Round-Up « Main Street

Health Care Round-Up « Main Street — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:28:44 +0000

[...] care isn’t the only way Whole Foods is bad to working [...]

By: Abigail

Abigail — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:14:37 +0000

I love this site but this article is a bit ridiculous…

I know everyone one who reads Civil Eat hates Big Ag, including myself but to specifically point out Big Ag as the main group lobbying against Employee Free Choice Act (also know as card check) is to overlook that all of industry in every sector, big or small is against the bill. Industry is against the bill completely… no compromises because they believe they will win and how it is looking on the Hill they will. The bill is going to fail because of Dems like Senator Lincoln (think about what state she is from). Whole Foods and Starbucks are the only ones in industry willing to compromise with labor. They came out with a statement at the end of March of this year (below is the website to the post article). Whole Foods isn’t perfect but it better than the majority of large grocery stores in this country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032101449.html

By: GastroNomalies » Blog Archive » Whoe Foods Food Fight Continues

GastroNomalies » Blog Archive » Whoe Foods Food Fight Continues — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:25:57 +0000

[...] at Civil Eats, Whole Foods anti-worker practices are in the spot light. The growing focus on Whole Foods hypocritical nature and black mark on [...]

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:36:45 +0000

There is another side to this issue. It’s not just a matter of bringing in unions so that supermarkets have to pay their employees more, it’s changing the public perception that food should be dirt cheap. Whole Foods catches a lot of crap for being more expensive, but I would imagine that is what gives them the luxury of being able to pay their employees more and give them health care choice. Would bringing in a union be able to increase what the general public thinks they should be paying for food. Or, would bringing in a union bring health care reform to reduce the cost to employers? Health care costs are increasing in every sector, not just food. Are we prepared to spend more for our food to provide for our food workers? I am and I vote with my feet and my dollars. But more and more, people are looking for the cheapest option with little regard to how or why the food items can be that cheap.

By: chowmama | Weekly Digest

chowmama | Weekly Digest — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:02:41 +0000

[...] The controversy continues: Whole Foods quietly gutting employee free choice (via Civil Eats) [...]

By: Sarahgoat

Sarahgoat — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:56:48 +0000

I’ve never liked Whole Foods. They’re expensive and phony. I’ve bought and eaten probably 60% local and organic for all my adult life, and I’ve only shopped there twice.

After the CEO’s comments against health care proposa…ls in the Wall Street Journal, Whole Foods made a statement that those were his views, not the company’s. To me, this casts doubt on that statement. And really, this alone is bad enough.