I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but that’s ok.

I don’t know nearly enough about the contract or the details of the strike to make a comment or to even pick a side. Before the strike, I was 100% pro Co-op, and probably started off supporting the employees.

But overtime, from what I witnessed by the picketers, they lost my support. I think they did a crappy job and they’ve encouraged me to take my business elsewhere. (I know I’m one person, who cares, right.)

My biggest issue was they had signs posted, ‘say no to co-op, on strike’, they blocked people from entering coop and some picketers got pretty aggressive with customers, meanwhile they’re asking for the support of the city to join them in boycotting co-op....all the while 10 strikers are camped out on lawn chairs for the afternoon? The Blairmore location and the Miller location I can say this confidently about.

They wanted the cities support, specifically Co-op customers to take the time and effort to make changes in our lives that support them and their cause, but they can’t even walk the picket line on a sunny Spring afternoon? Nah. It turned the appearance of the strike into an issue of entitlement.