The UFCW is promising more pressure on Target and more campaigns against “big box” retailers after Friday’s 137-85 union loss in the first of five Target elections in suburban New York City. “This is only Round One,” said UFCW Local 1500 spokesman Patrick Purcell. Purcell added the union would file objections to the election today. The union is expects to object to a company flyer that said there were “no guarantees” the store wouldn’t close if it went union. In Minneapolis, UFCW and CWA members handed out anti-Target flyers on Friday. “This is the start of something,” said Bernie Hesse, political director of Local 789 of the UFCW in Minneapolis. “This is not something we’re going to fold up and put away, regardless of the outcome.”
