{"id":245975,"date":"2004-10-27T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T16:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/call-for-supermarket-boycott"},"modified":"2004-10-27T12:17:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T16:17:27","slug":"call-for-supermarket-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/call-for-supermarket-boycott","title":{"rendered":"Call For Supermarket Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super Value employees are threatening to demonstrate and are calling on Bahamians to boycott the popular food store chain, claiming that the company &#8220;mistreated and wrongfully fired&#8221; members of its staff.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a press release issued yesterday, the Bahamas Commercial Stores Supermarket and Warehouse Workers union (BCSSWWU) claimed that the company is refusing to negotiate an industrial agreement for the workers and &#8220;mistreating the employees and terminating them when they try to seek their rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union announced that as a consequence they intend to demonstrate and asked the public to &#8220;boycott all Super Value foods until these matters are resolved and Rupert Roberts (president of Super Value) sits and negotiates an industrial agreement for the workers.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union members also published a poster that urges the public to shop at the competiton food store, City Market, &#8220;because they did the right thing for those workers and it is a foreign company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Bahamian&#8217; Supermarket may not be so &#8216;Bahamian&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}