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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donovan Arnold is wrong about the working
conditions at the Moscow Food Co-op.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most starting jobs (after training) at the Co-op
pay from $7.25 to $8.75 per hour. A very few lowest-rung jobs do begin at
$6.75.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Benefits to workers of 20 hours/week or more
includes:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 week paid vacation</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sick leave</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>18% discount on purchases and free
lunch</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Benefits to workers of 30 hours/week or more
includes those plus health/dental insurance (retirement benefits if work longer
than 2 years)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Moscow Food Co-op is such a good employer that
the UI Blot (student magazine) just honored the Co-op as the best place to work
in the Palouse.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>BL</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=london@moscow.com
href="mailto:london@moscow.com">Bill London</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Co-op Offers
Cash Incentive to Use Reusable Bags</DIV>
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<DIV>WOW, ten cents! Too bad the Co-Op takes it back from
you with outrageous prices. </DIV>
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<DIV>You ought to use that change to raise your non livable starvation slave
labor starting wages of $6,50 an hour. </DIV>
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<DIV>Could you live on the wages the Co-Op pays their workers?</DIV>
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<DIV>Best,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Bill London <<A
href="mailto:london@moscow.com">london@moscow.com</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>Moscow Food Co-op Offers Cash Incentive to Use Reusable Bags<BR><?/fontfamily> <BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>The
Moscow Food Co-op is now offering a refund of ten cents each time customers
use their own permanent shopping bag. This includes backpacks, bike
panniers, string bags, cloth bags, and anything else that is “permanent.”
Recycled paper or plastic bags will not qualify for the discount.<BR>“We
respect those who bring in recycled paper and plastic bags, but we want to
encourage habits that will help us get out of the cycle of using disposable
bags and non-renewable resources,” said Annie Hubble, the Co-op’s front end
manager.<BR>Hubble was motivated to introduce this incentive after reading
about the topic of shopping bags in the most recent issue of “Talking
Trash,” published by Moscow’s Waste Reduction Education Program.<BR>“The
succinct and informational article about the reasons why neither paper nor
plastic are good choices so shocked me that I felt I had to do something in
my department at the Co-op,” Hubble said. Going without paper or plastic
isn’t so unusual, Hubble notes.<BR>“When I was a child, we all automatically
gathered shopping bags before we went shopping, because the shops did not
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