Category: UFCW

The Starbucks Saga Continues to Flow with New Organizing Twists

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | May 26, 2022 | CWA, NLRB, Retail, UFCW, Union Organizing

The so-called rise of Big Labor frequently gets characterized as a looming, rapidly growing...

Organizing Drives Step Outside The Box

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 31, 2022 | IBT, Retail, UFCW, Union Organizing

Labor’s tentacles seek to spread far and wide into industries previously imagined to be...

New Union Organizing Website; UFCW Targets Cannabis Industry

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 25, 2021 | UFCW, Union Organizing, Unions

The UFCW took aim early at the cannabis industry, as their 2013 Cannabis Workers Rising initiative will attest. The pandemic didn’t seem to impede the drive, as organizing campaigns erupted and so-called labor peace agreements...

Sticky Fingers

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Nov 26, 2020 | Corruption, UAW, UFCW, Unions

Sticky Fingers Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials: Joe Ashton – UAW: $250,000 Christopher Roberts, Earl Graham, Jaime Ruggiero, Shawn Martindale, Torey Gannon – UA: $65,000 Arthur Penn –...

Labor Unions Leveraging Pandemic

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Apr 23, 2020 | UFCW, Union Organizing, Unions, UNITE-HERE

In the spirit of “never let a crisis go to waste,” Big Labor is taking every advantage it can to turn the pandemic to its own ends. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), union of government employees, sued the...