A Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Be Bad for Almost Everyone

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Why a coalition called Stop the Merger plans to 'fight like hell' to prevent it.

. “After Haggen went bankrupt and shut down my store, I applied for work at four different stores,” Robinett says. “I wasn’t able to get a job for three months and I had to take side jobs as a seamstress and cleaning houses to make ends meet. That merger caused me a lot of anxiety.”

Workers are also concerned their benefits would be affected. “We’ve always lost something,” St. Louis says of the mergers she’s experienced. Most recently she says the price of health care increased, and now she’s concerned it’ll affect pensions. “I feel like I have to be a voice for the retirees. A lot of them are in their 80s and 90s; they can’t go back to work. If they don’t get their pension, they get more stuff taken away from them, it’s just not fair.

, an independent farm worker union with a collective bargaining agreement that covers around 500 workers in Washington state, says they are opposed to the merger for the risks it poses to farm workers.letter to the FTC

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