What my employer offers part timers is determined by collective bargaining, while what other grocery stores offer is determined by a bunch of factors, including optics. They all offer a better deal than what the union fights for us.

Everyone who works at this store lives a five minute walk away or less and management walks on egg shells, terrified of hourly staff quitting, so there's no discipline--- they wouldn't be there otherwise. They're handcuffed from seeking out winners and paying more and rewarding their existing staff, so I get paid to basically go to a high school where I lift some boxes and get to take hourly breaks because "that's how we do things around here". But they don't improve our conditions-- not in the slightest.