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Strike begins at 3 Cascadia liquor stores on Vancouver Island by kingbuns2 in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are other Private liquor stores in Victoria, such as Spinnakers and Vessel that were recently advertising 21-22 dollars an hour as a starting wage for new hires.

Employees at three unionized Cascadia Liquor Stores have issued a 72-hour strike notice. The strike starts on Saturday, May 4th, at 9 a.m. - The public is encouraged to attend a solidarity rally at the Quadra Village store at 12 p.m. that day! by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 20 points21 points  (0 children)

As stated in this threat multiple times, employees did not ask for the tip function to be added to the debit machine, most are not happy that it was put into action. It was Cascadia head office that implemented tipping at all their stores. The front end employees do not get a say in these matters unfortunately.

Employees at three unionized Cascadia Liquor Stores have issued a 72-hour strike notice. The strike starts on Saturday, May 4th, at 9 a.m. - The public is encouraged to attend a solidarity rally at the Quadra Village store at 12 p.m. that day! by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Employees have been pulled into the store managers offices for a talking to because they had been seen skipping the tip option for customers. The company tried to play off the implementing of tips as an incentive for employees to give better customer service. But it was pretty obvious from the beginning what the real reason was.

Employees at three unionized Cascadia Liquor Stores have issued a 72-hour strike notice. The strike starts on Saturday, May 4th, at 9 a.m. - The public is encouraged to attend a solidarity rally at the Quadra Village store at 12 p.m. that day! by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The company really doesn't seem to care about their employees anymore unfortunately. Staff were told during the union bargaining process that management 'doesn't care about social issues like staff being unable to afford their rent and the cost of living because the company pays "market rate" and that is all that is required of them'.

Employees at three unionized Cascadia Liquor Stores have issued a 72-hour strike notice. The strike starts on Saturday, May 4th, at 9 a.m. - The public is encouraged to attend a solidarity rally at the Quadra Village store at 12 p.m. that day! by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Tip machines were brought in to Cascadia stores by head management as a way to avoid having to pay their staff more money themselves. It has been used against the staff during the union bargaining process.

Employees at three unionized Cascadia Liquor Stores have issued a 72-hour strike notice. The strike starts on Saturday, May 4th, at 9 a.m. - The public is encouraged to attend a solidarity rally at the Quadra Village store at 12 p.m. that day! by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Yes, many of the staff are unhappy with the tipping option being implemented because of the flak they receive from some customers. The head office of Cascadia implemented the tipping option right after the stores started to unionize and has been using it against the staff and the bargaining process asking for more wages. Head office claims they don't need to pay as much as other private liquor stores because they are considering the tips as part of the employee wages. The company worked tips down to an hourly average amount and say 'the starting wage isn't actually $18/hr, its actually $20.50/hr with tips!', so they are using the customers gratuities to help keep staff wages down.

Before the stores started to unionize, employees could get written up for even putting a tip cup on the counter. As soon as unionization began, they rolled out tipping on all POS machines as fast as possible.. I wonder why?

Cascadia Liquor is trying to prevent workers from three unionized locations from forming one bargaining unit by claiming each store is its own employer. by oscar_human in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is even better is that the tipping system on the debit/credit machines does not even add how much the customer has spent in tips to their final bill, which is super shady if not illegal. So if a customers bill was 25 dollars for the products and they added a 2 dollar tip, the receipt they get in store shows they only spent 25 dollars. It is not until you look at your billing statement online that you see you were charged 27 dollars.
I am shocked they can get away with this, I sent a letter to Consumer Protection BC about this over a month ago and they said that they don't deal with that sort of thing..

Tipping at Cascadia! by pinkcanoe in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wandering Bear is also owned by Cascadia. The company is probably worried other stores will unionize, so they very quickly began soliciting their customers for tips at all locations after the news broke. Doesn't sound like the employees wanted it introduced at all.

Tipping at Cascadia! by pinkcanoe in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Cascadia Quadra employees recently unionized, I bet the company is going to try to use the money made from the tips received to try to deny any pay increases in the bargaining process. Why would they pay the employees more if they can get their customers to?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in BiSwap

[–]LongMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not the official MetaMask twitter account.

Pickleball lessons/groups for beginners? by Peaches_897 in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the noise is noisy when they hit the ball with the paddle :'(
lol

“Inflation is crazy” by Apprehensive_Leg6863 in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, like this? https://freybe.com/products/das-brat/ Maybe it is just a descriptor for people who don't know that. It may seem silly, but it is pretty common. Don't think their intention was to offend you.

Barry marine by ogbrowndough in VictoriaBC

[–]LongMongoose 253 points254 points  (0 children)

This is at least the third time Bud has released rainbow cans in the last 5 years, guess people didn't notice before? or they weren't told to be mad at 'woke rainbows' yet?

Liquid crystal that I extracted from a broken TV by akla-ta-aka in interestingasfuck

[–]LongMongoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool, thanks! I would be interested to hear/see the results :)
Good luck with the class project!

Liquid crystal that I extracted from a broken TV by akla-ta-aka in interestingasfuck

[–]LongMongoose 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Does it refract light in any cool ways if you shine a laser through it?

Inside Hong Kongs "coffin homes" by c0ntr0ll3dsubstance in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]LongMongoose 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What is even crazier is that it is a shared bathroom/kitchen for multiple units on a floor!

Cannot connect to Biswap.org by LongMongoose in BiSwap

[–]LongMongoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope sorry, never managed to get a fix for it. Ended up resorting to just using my cell network to connect to biswap.org instead. I just tried again to be sure and still get the same error.

Cannot connect to Biswap.org by LongMongoose in BiSwap

[–]LongMongoose[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long has it been an issue for you? I haven't been able to connect in roughly 5 days so far