Show Unions And Food Prices An expert on food recently warned that chains' profits were down to a point where could no loncer absorb increased as has sometimes been possible in the THE PRIMARY cause of many hikes in food he was not inefficiency in management but inefficiency in work methods demanded by He cited examples of stocking and other processes where unions force which understandably increase stores One shouldn't leap to the that unions are always the cause of high food Excessive middle-man management failures and other reasons are often in But union sometimes tied in with are a contributing cause and it is in the interest of union members to keep food costs TRUCK DRIVERS in some areas have managed to obtain commissions on deliveries of such as bread the commissions run thousands of dollars more than unions have store personnel to unload they have set a maximum number of trucks to be unloaded in a set period of they have refused to stagger working hours to enable stores to cope with rush |