Picketer might be cursed by his colorful language
I do not understand Neil Gold, the Ralphs dairy manager on strike
who calls his employer greedy and curses at them (Mailbag, Feb. 5).
If I felt that way about my employer, I would quit and look for
another job. Actually, I did have similar feelings about a former
employer (although I didn't curse at them and call them names), so I
quit and got another job! It wasn't immediate or easy, but it
definitely was for the best and didn't require a strike.
And with that attitude, what kind of employee will he be, if and
when he returns to work when the strike is settled? I really hope
that he treats his customers with respect and courtesy -- even the
ones who crossed the picket lines. The union keeps telling us they
are fighting the grocery stores. That anger should not be directed at
shoppers.
Behaving as he does, maybe it's not difficult to believe they
don't want him back at work.
PHILLIP HAIN
Glendale
Is it dollars and cents -- or dollars and sense?
There is one question for the supermarket chains:
If you win this labor dispute and with the billions you would
save, are you truly going to compete with non-union stores by
lowering the prices, or pocket the money and fatten the pockets of
the cheap executive officers and force the employees to shop at
cheap-priced stores with the lower wages?
EARL A. WIBLE
Glendale
Parent's permission should be sufficient
We agree with Greg Krikorian -- have any student bring a letter
from a parent to school and the district is not docked.
Better yet, have the school board print up a few thousand forms
for distribution to all of those students who wish to observe, and
all the parent has to do is sign it and fill in the date box.
As we had pointed out in a previous note to the News-Press ... it
will take three generations for our guests of Armenian descent to
assimilate and become real citizens of the USA.
WILLIAM L. CRAMER
Glendale
Students already have too many days off
I have two major problems with the possibility of two more
official holidays in the Glendale Unified School District.
First, kids in the district already have too many days off from
school. If you're an adult in your 30s or 40s, you probably don't
remember ever getting a free Friday so the teachers could work over
their report cards (I do love you, teachers, but you do have more
days off than mine did years ago); or staff development days that
kept a student home from school; or one day a week when you could
