We’ve already covered the whole kerfuffle over the WSJ op-ed written by the CEO of Whole Foods.
It just keeps getting better and better (or worse and worse):
The UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers), whose president earns $626,769 a year, has launched a campaign against Whole Foods, whose CEO earns $1 a year in salary.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s total compensation is $33,831, and he has implemented executive pay limits for all of his executives.
Mackey’s sin? He offers his employees good benefits, and UFCW wants them to unionize so that their union bosses can make more money.
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On Monday, August 24, 2009, the UFCW will be in front of the Whole Foods in Columbus, Ohio, at 3670 W. Dublin-Granville Rd., from approximately 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and at the Whole Foods at 1555 W. Lane Ave. in Upper Arlington, Ohio, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is liberal fascism in its purest form. Martino (or anyone else in the vicinity), sic ‘em.
I shop at Whole Foods, and find it more than a little precious in its presentation. But that’s fine. I just want to know if they have to import the Untied Nations represented by their workforce, or do they really all live locally. I mean, on any given day their cashiers look like they come from Jordan, Nepal, Mexico, Barbados, and Pakistan. I’m not kidding. Try finding an Irish kid from Southie anywhere near the place. Again, fine, but how—or why—do they accomplish that?
I just love to watch the unshaven, matted-haired, BO-ed shoppers at Whole Foods (and that’s just the women) flip out over this news that the CEO of their beloved grocery store believes in free enterprise and at least a somewhat limited government. Takes the firmness right out of their tofu.