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United Food and Commercial Workers

United Food And Commercial Workers, Local 7, Can't Get Approval For Strike From National Leadership

The Denver Post | Steve Raabe | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: King Soopers, Ernest Duran, Ufcw, Safeway, Denver Grocery Strike, United Food and Commercial Workers, Denver Grocery Workers, Denver News

Friction between Colorado grocery-worker union officials and their national leadership could once again derail or delay a strike during the crucial ho...

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Colorado Grocery Workers Appear Ready To Strike

Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: King Soopers, Colorado Grocery Workers, Lock Out, Ufcw, United Food and Commercial Workers, Laura Chapin, Grocery Lock Out, Safeway, Grocery Strike, Denver News

The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Wednesday that the Colorado grocery workers took one step closer to striking this week when they walked out on n...

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Colorado Grocery Workers Union Rejects Latest Offer, Some Authorize Strike

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: King Soopers, Colorado Grocery Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, Kroger, Albertsons, Grocery Workers Strike, Grocery Workers Union, Safeway, City Market, Denver News

DENVER — A union representing Colorado grocery workers says members statewide have voted to reject the latest contract offers from Safeway and t...

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Labor-Environmental Coalition Targets Wal-Mart

The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Walmart, Environmental Groups, Ufcw, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Unions, Employee Free Choice Act, Health Care, Low Wages, Green, Business, Home News

Labor groups renewed their campaign against Wal-Mart on Tuesday, launching a coalition that calls for improvements in the company's wages, health care...

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Big Business Bigotry

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: United Farm Workers, Eggs, Cesar Chavez, California, Animal Rights, United Food and Commercial Workers, California Politics, Proposition 2, Animals, Politics News
Michael Markarian

In a shameless display of xenophobia, it seems the factory farm fakers have launched an all-out attack on Mexico.

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Wal-Mart Plays Fear Factor and Workers Lose

James P. Hoffa | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: United Food and Commercial Workers, Federal Election Commission, Employee Free Choice Act, Vlad the Impaler, Texas, Canada, Teamsters, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Fec, Politics News
James P. Hoffa

In an effort to push their anti-worker agenda, the corporate behemoth has begun herding its employees into mandatory meetings where the topic is simple and clear -- vote Republican, or else.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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