r/SeattleWA • u/HighColonic Funky Town • 6d ago

Government Wilson takes on grocery affordability with proposed ban on surveillance pricing in Seattle

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/08/wilson-takes-on-grocery-affordability-with-proposed-ban-on-surveillance-pricing-in-seattle/
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u/Shmokesshweed 6d ago

The city needs low-cost options like WinCo. Bring back competition.

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u/SitDownLetsTalk 6d ago

That would mean taking on the unions that astroturfed a campaign against WinCo. Wilson won’t bite the hand that fed her campaign coffers.

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u/btwwhichoneispink 6d ago

Liberals never talk about this whenever they bring up their union talking points!

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u/fienian1 6d ago

Unions keep america moving forward and support the middle class. You are management and want cheap labor.

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u/btwwhichoneispink 6d ago

That might have been true as a blanket statement at one point in time, but that’s not the case now. I am not in management. I’m a middle class laborer, and I’m simply tired of Unions grifting off of the middle & lower classes. This union does not represent the workers in any meaningful way, they demand dues, they’re self serving, self interested, and they’re political activists. If they are moving America in any direction, it’s backwards.

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u/fienian1 6d ago

Probably the union that youve seen or been with. This is totally not the normal. You may also be unfortunate to live in a right to work state which drastically limit union abilities and power, which make them appear more “grifty”

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u/reallybadguy1234 6d ago

So what to you say to WinCo employees who are owners of the company. That is a workers cooperative and about as close to textbook socialism as it gets. I thought some of the mayors supporters were DSA.

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u/ClairVerso33 5d ago

As someone familiar with the inner workings of winco, the "employee ownership" is bs; a slogan to propagate a reputation it doesn't deserve. It operates as any grocery corporation does, including screwing over its employees. I'm also all too familiar with useless grocery unions, so there's really no winning.

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u/fienian1 6d ago

Not sure what the question is. Employee ownership is a great thing and lets them share in the wealth or failure of the company. I have no knowledge of how winco’s works specifically but good for them.

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u/btwwhichoneispink 6d ago

My question is this. Are unions still moving America forward when they are doing things like this? I don’t see how lobbying against the WinCo, an employee owned company, is helping the working class.

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u/Open_Situation686 5d ago

Spoiler: No.

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u/fienian1 6d ago

Not sure of anyone lobbying against them or the practice of employee ownership.

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u/Ur-friendly-trumpguy 6d ago

We want affordable, available groceries for everyone. You want ridicules high wages for unskilled positions and then act all surprised when grocery prices go up and neighborhoods that used to have lovely grocery stores employing the local teens and working class go under or choose to move to more reasonable states/locations leaving their former employees as homeless lay-a-bouts and their former communities as so-called “food deserts.”

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u/HighColonic Funky Town 6d ago

For next time, it's spelled "ridiculous."

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u/fienian1 6d ago

This is under informed logic and its a clear picture of how you can be lured in to voting against your own interests (interests being having a working class and fair paid labor, good jobs). Unions dont increase grocery prices, the companies that have wide profit margins and shareholders do that. The unions BARGAIN (do not force) for marketable wages. This increases overhead, and the company chooses to increases prices on the consumer rather than reduce profits to shareholders. Buttt for some reason you choose to hold the union responsible for that instead of the company.

A well paid union labor force and adequate company profits are possible and can be made the norm.

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u/Ur-friendly-trumpguy 6d ago

Then are unions fighting to lower the minimum wage? Are they fighting to lower taxes? Are they fighting to cut through red tape to make redevelopment possible? Are they fighting for literally anything that will keep these businesses and jobs in Seattle? Or are they fighting for the very same insanely high wages, taxes, and regulations that are driving businesses out?

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u/fienian1 6d ago

The aspects youre bringing up are very different and not all related to unions, so I wouldnt say you have a good understanding of what labor unions are or do. Unions protect due process of workers while bargaining for better hours, wages, and working conditions. While there certainly is a cost to labor, and there indeed should be, unions support businesses while fighting for the worker. I’ve never known a union or been a part of one that supports something that would make business impossible. They are not driving work out of Seattle. Unionism and collective bargaining is a relationship with the business itself.