Whole Foods Cuts Paid Breaks From 15 to 10 Minutes for Thousands of Workers

[Jirel]

10. I know. Unfortunately, that's the problem.

A LOT of excess attention is given to Whole Foods, because it's the expensive chain and it was bought by Amazon, and it's easy to get people riled about it.

The problem is, I know for a fact that despite all their bad aspects and the worsening conditions since the buy-out, they're still the coveted place for grocery jobs here. That's a sad commentary. Are the other grocery workers in the huge chains here going to unionize? I doubt they'd even consider it.

I've been both a business owner and a manager in Texas, not in an industry where employees are expected to turn over constantly, like the grocery industry, but in the legal industry where people wrongly believe employees are treated far better. They really aren't. Some of the things I've had to go to bat about with our HR manager should never have been an issue.

I just dislike pointing fingers almost exclusively at the most mediagenic employers, when the reality is that they may be the least of the problem. If we're going to be serious about improving work conditions, we need to be talking about the employers with the largest number of workers in any given area. Especially ones like H.E.B. here, which is pretty much a sacred cow.