Labor Update: Vote for Scrooge of the Year

Jobs with Justice is holding its 11th Annual Scrooge of the Year contest. 

Celebrate the season by selecting the most sinister Scrooge from among the following seven finalists, including CEOs, corporations and politicians who have most remarkably screwed workers in the past year:
 
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell was nominated for leading the Republican party in aggressively blocking legislation that would benefit working people;

Express Scripts was chosen because despite racking up profits of $1.7 billion last year by processing 12 percent of the nation’s prescriptions, the company is demanding draconian concessions from workers and threatening to close facilities;

Hyatt was nominated for trying to eliminate quality health care coverage and make the recession permanent for its employees, and for the Hyatt safety record;

Rite Aid was chosen for failing to bargain a first contract with workers who joined a union two years ago, and for demanding unreasonable concessions from other workers;

Publix was selected because it won’t join other companies in pledging to improve wages and working conditions for the farm workers who pick the companies’ tomatoes;

Giumarra Vineyards is a candidate because of its long history of intimidating and bullying workers and violating their rights;

The health and pharmaceutical industry was nominated for its single-minded focus on profits at the expense of our health.

Winner* to be announced 12-20-2010.

~Tracy Kurowski has been active in
the labor movement for ten years, first as a member of AFSCME 3506, when
she taught adult education classes at the City Colleges of Chicago. She
moved to the Quad Cities in 2007 where she worked as political
coordinator with the Quad City Federation of Labor, and as a caseworker
for Congressman Bruce Braley from 2007 – 2009.