If you need more facts about Rite Aid, they are compelling:

• Rite Aid is a powerful corporation that takes care of executives, paying CEO Mary Sammons $5.25 million last year. In 2008, Rite Aid sales totaled $24.3 billion.
• Rite Aid demands tax breaks from local communities that need jobs. They received big tax breaks, and promised good jobs, to locate in Lancaster and receive public subsidies that offset their labor costs.
•  Rite Aid workers wanted a union to address problems like warehouse temperatures that were freezing in winter and broiling in the summer, mandatory, last-minute overtime that was hurting families, and computerized tracking systems discounted safety.
• Rite Aid, like too many employers, broke the law to scare workers – with few penalties. They threatened and harassed dozens of workers for supporting the union, and fired several in hopes of terrifying others. Rite Aid faced 49 labor violations with the National Labor Relations Board but was allowed to settle, with minimal consequences. The company paid no heavy fines or punitive damages.
• After democratically voting to join a union, Rite Aid workers are blocked because the company has the power to cause endless delays on reaching a first contract. Almost a year after the vote, Rite Aid has come to the bargaining table 25 times but has failed to offer any reasonable proposals, agreeing only on trivial issues like bulletin boards. Rite Aid workers have offered to meet around-the-clock, and sit down with Rite Aid's CEO, without management accepting the offers.