{"id":121127,"date":"2024-08-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/?post_type=video&p=121127"},"modified":"2024-08-29T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:38:21","slug":"grocery-kroger-monopoly-workers","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/video\/grocery-kroger-monopoly-workers","title":{"rendered":"Workers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A federal judge is deciding whether or not to approve the biggest grocery corporate merger<\/a> in U.S. history. The Kroger and Albertsons chains say they want to merge in order to better compete with non-unionized grocery retailers such as Walmart. The Biden administration\u2019s Federal Trade Commission has sued<\/a> to stop the $25 billion deal, saying<\/a> it would not help lower food prices and could hurt worker rights and wages.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grace Garcia, a cashier at Vons in Glendale, California, with over three decades in the grocery industry, as well as a member of UFCW Local 770, spoke with 精东影业 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 精东影业 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali <\/em>about why workers like her are opposing the merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Biden administration has sued to stop the largest grocery merger in the nation\u2019s history, between Kroger and Albertsons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":121191,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[5,267],"tags":[2274,2278],"article-type":[250],"special-series":[],"class_list":["post-121127","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-jobs","tag-labor-unions","tag-rising-up-with-sonali","article-type-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n