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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...
Read MorePosted 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 –...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | Corruption, CWA, UFCW, Unions
Sticky Fingers Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials: Nathan Lum – ILWU: $300,000 Chandra Miller – IATSE: $5,000 Chad Waldoch – SMART: $107,706 Beverly Davis and Evelyn Smith – CWA: $135,000 Keith Ludlum –...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Strikes, UFCW, Unions
By the time the USMCA was approved by the House, most labor unions, and the AFL-CIO, were on board with the deal. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), however, still has a bone to pick — but not with who...
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