I will not shop in any establishment that makes its employees work on Thanksgiving

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106. There are plenty of hours available to work

without forcing people to work a holiday. And people would have to be forced. To keep all the stores open and staffed, some would have to be forced. There's no way around that. Of all the hundreds of stores they're opening, needing the thousands of employees to staff it, there's no way they're all going to be volunteer. It isn't right. There was a time when holidays were considered a time for family. No, not everyone could have the time off, obviously. THe country can't completely shut down. But unions went a long way to giving us all things like weekends, 40 hour work weeks, vacations ,and time off with our family. We all benefited. Even retail workers. I appreciate the fact that many want extra hours. I sure did, too. That doesn't excuse this.

This is solely motivated by greed. It has to be fought at every turn. Because corporations fought labor when they gave us the benefits we enjoy. People died for them. And corporations have been fighting ever since to take them back. And they've been winning. They're winning on this and they will keep on taking. I can't tell you how it grieves me to see, on what is supposed to be a progressive board, people here supporting this. They won't stop with Thanksgiving. And it won't stop at retail workers. But we're all like frogs in the boiling pot. We won't notice till it's too late.