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| 2003 Press Releases | |
| Food Workers Union Offers Good Faith Gesture to Start Negotiations | |
| December 19, 2003 | |
| In a dramatic gesture to reopen negotiations, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) announced today that its local unions would remove picket lines from distribution/warehouse facilities at Ralphs, Albertsons and Safeway/Vons. The move coincides with the renewal of negotiations on Friday, December 19, 2003. | |
| Are the Supermarket Employers Lying About Their Health Plan? | |
| December 16, 2003 | |
| Striking supermarket workers continue to expose Safeway’s ‘big lie’ about the health care issues driving the three-month long strike in Southern California. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) will run full-page advertisements in the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Bakersfield Californian and the San Diego Union Tribune. | |
| UFCW North American Summit Mobilizes Support For Southern California Supermarket Strike | |
| December 16, 2003 | |
| On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 400+ UFCW local union presidents from across the country and Canada will meet in Century City to discuss ways of supporting the Southern California local unions whose 70,000 members have been on strike or locked out since October 11th. | |
| Bush's Idea of Fairness--Cuts for Everybody: Tax Cuts for The Rich, Pay Cuts For The Workers | |
| December 13, 2003 | |
| In a statement before a hearing on proposed rule changes on overtime pay eligibility, Dority charged that the Bush plan would be the "largest, single pay cut for workers in history," and has no rational basis except to "feed the greed of corporate America." | |
| Corporal John Miller, Annapolis Police Dept, Testifies on Overtime Regulations | |
| December 11, 2003 | |
| Statement before the Democratic Policy Committee Hearing on Proposed Regulatory Changes to Overtime Exemptions in the Fair Labor Standards Act | |
| Doug Dority Statement on Overtime Regulations | |
| December 11, 2003 | |
| Presented at the Hearing on Proposed Regulatory Changes to Overtime Exemptions in the Fair Labor Standards Act Before the Democratic Policy Committee | |
| Holding the Line for Health Care: Support Builds with Labor Movement Contributions | |
| December 09, 2003 | |
| Two international unions and a major insurance company make sizeable contributions to UFCW strike fund. | |
| California Congressman Challenges Safeway’s Claims On Health Care | |
| December 04, 2003 | |
| Congressman Lantos' letter to Steve Burd, Safeway CEO | |
| Entertainment Industry Unions & Celebrities to Join Striking and Locked Out Grocery Workers on Picket Line | |
| December 02, 2003 | |
| Participants to Bring Unwrapped Toys for the Children of UFCW Workers Who May Face a Lean Holiday Season if Strike Continues... | |
| Picket Lines Spread to Supermarket Warehouses and Distribution Centers | |
| November 24, 2003 | |
| The Southern California supermarket strike gaining new momentum and support with the extension of picket lines from coast to coast over the weekend will now expand the fight to hold the line for health care to the warehouse and distribution facilities of all three supermarket chains. | |
| California Supermarket Strike hits local Safeway stores | |
| November 21, 2003 | |
| National Picket Lines to Hit Washington-Baltimore Area Safeway Stores this Weekend | |
| Southern California Supermarket Workers Extend Pickets to Sacramento | |
| November 21, 2003 | |
| As they enter their sixth week on strike, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union are extending picket lines to Sacramento-area Safeway stores. | |
| Southern California Supermarket Workers Extend Picket Lines to Fresno | |
| November 16, 2003 | |
| After five weeks on strike, members of the UFCW are extending picket lines to Fresno Safeway stores. Picket lines are now up at Safeways in San Francisco, Oakland, Castro Valley and Hayward. | |
| Southern California Supermarket Workers Extend Picket Lines to East Bay | |
| November 14, 2003 | |
| A few days after extending lines to San Francisco, Southern California supermarket strikers have moved across the Bay and are setting up pickets at Safeway in Hayward and Castro Valley. | |
| Military Vets Challenge Award to Tyson Foods | |
| November 13, 2003 | |
| Veterans will protest tomorrow, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce building, 1615 H Street NW, Washington D.C. They will demonstrate their disgust over Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's decision to present Tyson Foods the "Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award." | |
| Southern California Supermarket Workers Extend Picket Line to Northern California Safeway/Vons Stores | |
| November 11, 2003 | |
| Picket lines extended to Northern California Safeway/Vons stores. | |
| Supermarket Strike Spreads as Picket Lines Begin Move to Northern California Safeway Stores | |
| November 07, 2003 | |
| Picket lines spread to Northern California Safeway stores. | |
| Contract with Schnucks, Dierbergs, Shop ‘n Save Is Ratified by UFCW Local 655 | |
| October 31, 2003 | |
| By a secret ballot vote of 4,174 to 945, members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 655 today accepted a 47-month contract proposal made by the three major local food chains, Schnucks, Dierbergs and Shop ‘n Save. | |
| UFCW Supermarket Workers Withdraw Pickets from Ralphs Stores | |
| October 31, 2003 | |
| Picket lines will be withdrawn by 12:00 noon from Ralphs stores in Southern California. | |
| Hold the Line on Health Care | |
| October 30, 2003 | |
| Almost 90,000 UFCW members, 70,000 in Southern California alone, are in the streets in a fight to save health benefits at work. Make no mistake about the scope and the consequences of this struggle. It is corporate greed vs. human need and corporate greed is a killer. | |
| “Hold the Line for America’s Health Care,” National Leaders Say | |
| October 28, 2003 | |
| AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Union Presidents, National, Consumer, Civil Rights, Religious, and Women’s Community Leaders Will Announce Actions to Support Striking Grocery Workers | |
| Lies, Damn Lies and Company Lies | |
| October 22, 2003 | |
| Setting the record straight about Safeway, Kroger and Alberton's plans to destroy health care benefits for Southern California grocery workers. | |
| Press Briefing: Lies, Damn Lies And Company Lies | |
| October 21, 2003 | |
| Press Briefing - Media Advisory about the California Supermarket Strike | |
| Gephardt Health Care Stance Wins Support From | |
| October 15, 2003 | |
| Davenport, Iowa—Today, the nation’s largest private sector union, and the largest union in Iowa, put the support of its 1.4 million members behind Dick Gephardt for President. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union endorsed the Gephardt campaign based on his plan to protect the employer-based health care system in the U.S. | |
| UFCW Statement on Farmland Sale to Smithfield Foods | |
| October 14, 2003 | |
| Farmland was sold to Smithfield Foods today. Following is the UFCW statement. | |
| UFCW Unions in Southern California Sue Albertsons and Ralphs for Violation of | |
| October 14, 2003 | |
| Statement from Southern California strike | |
| Kroger Employees Take Stand for Fairness | |
| October 13, 2003 | |
| Press Statement from UFCW Local 400 on West Virginia grocery strike | |
| Corporate Greed vs. Human Need | |
| October 10, 2003 | |
| Press statement on Southern California strike situation | |
| UFCW News 10/10: UFCW Supermarket Workers Reject Employers’ Offer Vote Overwhelmingly To Protect Health Care and Retirem | |
| October 10, 2003 | |
| UFCW Supermarket Workers Reject Employers' Offer Vote Overwhelmingly To Protect Health Care and Retirement Benefits | |
| Injured Smithfield Worker Speaks Out for Improved Safety | |
| October 02, 2003 | |
| Jose Sauceda, a Mexican immigrant and former worker at the world’s largest hog processing plant, testified before a panel of U.S. Representatives today. Sauceda spoke to members of the Workforce Protections subcommittee of the House Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He told the assembled group of elected officials about his experiences slaughtering hogs at the Smithfield Packing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. | |
| Hormel Workers Ratify New Contract | |
| October 01, 2003 | |
| More than 3,000 workers at Hormel plants in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Minnesota approved a new four-year contract in a vote last night. Workers, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union turned out to vote their approval for the agreement. | |
| Doing the Work of America: Food and Commercial Workers Mobilize for Immigrant Worker Rights | |
| September 25, 2003 | |
| The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and the Omaha community are mobilizing to protect the rights of immigrant workers. A coalition of Omaha Together, One Community (OTOC), immigrant assist organizations, student organizations, local businesses, elected officials, and local labor leaders will welcome the national Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride in Omaha on Saturday, September 27th. | |
| Doing the Work of America: Food and Commercial Workers Mobilize for Immigrant Worker Rights | |
| September 25, 2003 | |
| The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and the Fayetteville community are mobilizing to protect the rights of immigrant workers. A coalition of immigrant assist organizations, student organizations, local businesses, elected officials, and local labor leaders will welcome the national Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride in Fayetteville on Monday, September 29th. | |
| Doing the Work of America: Food and Commercial Workers Mobilize for Immigrant Worker Rights | |
| September 25, 2003 | |
| The nation's largest private sector union and the largest workers' organization in the food industry, the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), is mobilizing to protect the rights of immigrant workers who now comprise the majority of the workforce in much of America's meat and food processing industry. | |
| Fuerza Laboral Mayoritaria Se Moviliza a Favor de los Derechos de Los Trabajadores Inmigrantes de la Inudstria de ... | |
| September 25, 2003 | |
| La unión más grande del sector privado y la organización de trabajadores con más integrantes en la industria alimentaría, United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), con 1.4 millones de miembros; se está movilizando para proteger los derechos de los obreros inmigrantes, quienes conforman en la actualidad la mayoría de la fuerza laboral en gran parte de la industria del procesamiento de carnes y alimentos de los Estados Unidos. | |
| Immigrant Workers Stand Up for a Voice on the Job | |
| September 24, 2003 | |
| On the eve of the historic national Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride arriving in Omaha, a group of 250 mostly immigrant workers at the Casa de Oro plant stood up for a voice on the job with the UFCW Local 271. In an election Tuesday, September 23, 2003, workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of UFCW representation. | |
| Wal-Mart Workers' Right to Talk Union on Job Upheld By Judge | |
| September 16, 2003 | |
| Wal-Mart’s effort to silence workers through a 'no solicitation’ policy its managers interpret as prohibiting any talk about union organizing is blatantly illegal, a National Labor Relations Board Judge has ruled in a case involving the Wal?Mart Supercenter in Aiken, South Carolina. | |
| Legal Technicalities Allows Smithfield Packing Off the Hook | |
| August 21, 2003 | |
| Facts Remain Indisputable: Company Engaged in Terror Tactics Against Workers | |
| Organizing Movement Grows Among Wal-Mart Workers | |
| August 20, 2003 | |
| Worker efforts to get a voice on the job at Wal-Mart stores in North America are gaining ground. Canadian Wal-Mart workers in Thompson, Manitoba, narrowly lost their efforts to get a voice on the job with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) - 61 to 54. | |
| Wal-Mart's War on Workers: Frontline Report From Texas and Arkansas | |
| August 08, 2003 | |
| U.S. District Court Investigating Overtime Abuse | |
| Las Vegas Wal-Mart Worker to Share Spotlight with Presidential Candidates | |
| August 05, 2003 | |
| Fired Worker Making His Voice Heard | |
| Details on Candidates Forum At UFCW Convention | |
| July 30, 2003 | |
| Democratic Party presidential candidates will appear in a forum on health care issues at the Convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union | |
| Democratic Presidential Campaign Train 2004: West Coast Whistle Stop | |
| July 18, 2003 | |
| Gephardt-Dean-Kerry-Edwards-Moseley Braun-Kucinich Will Give Their Answers To A Crowd Of 5,000 Working Americans In A Forum On Health Care Reform | |
| Nation's Largest Private Sector Union to Host Democratic Presidential Candidates Forum on Health Care Reform | |
| July 17, 2003 | |
| Dean, Gephardt, Kucinich and Moseley-Braun Confirmed – Others Invited - for July 31st Forum – Bill Press To Moderate Candidate Discussion | |
| Wal-Marts's War on Workers: Frontline Report from Florida & Georgia | |
| July 10, 2003 | |
| Company Settles Second Case in Georgia; Faces New Complaint in Ft. Myers | |
| Statement From Michael E. Leonard UFCW Executive Vice President and Director of Strategic Programs | |
| July 03, 2003 | |
| Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed and remanded the nationwide injunction Wal-Mart had obtained against the UFCW in 2001. | |
| Wal-Mart Ordered to Recognize the Union | |
| June 18, 2003 | |
| Company Ordered to Turn Over Information to Union | |
| Management Official Blows The Whistle On Human Rights Abuses At Smithfield Packing - People Of Color Targeted In Illegal | |
| June 12, 2003 | |
| Atlanta Area Kickoff Point For Witness: Justice@Smithfield Community/Consumer Action Campaign - King Historic Site Hosts Premier Of Documentary Video of Human Rights Abuses at Smithfield Plant | |
| Una Ex Gerente Acusa a Smithfield Foods de Abusos a los Derechos de los Trabajadores--La Compañía Dirige Una Campaña Ile | |
| June 12, 2003 | |
| El proyecto “Testigo:Justicia@Smithfield” Empieza en Atlanta. El Estreno De un Video Documentando Los Abusos Humanos de los Trabajadores de la Planta de Smithfield Ocurria en el Sitio Historico KING. | |
| Wal-Mart Benefit Book Lies; Nearly a Million Workers Misled | |
| June 05, 2003 | |
| Lawsuit Seeks to Inform All Workers of Their Rights | |
| Wal-Mart's War on Workers: Frontline Report From British Columbia | |
| May 14, 2003 | |
| Wal-Mart's Attack on the Union Cited in Canadian Labour Board Complaint; UFCW Wins Meeting with Workers on Company | |
| Tyson Pepperoni Gives Heartburn to Pizza Hut | |
| May 05, 2003 | |
| Mass Mailing Targets Pizza Hut Customers In Corporate Greed Dispute At Tyson Pepperoni Plant | |
| Kohl's Workers Launch Grassroots Campaign to Save Their Stores | |
| April 16, 2003 | |
| Area Consumers Targeted to Join Workers' Effort | |
| "Next Action Undetermined"; Stalled OSHA Regulation Leaves Workers At Risk | |
| April 10, 2003 | |
| UFCW Demands DOL Enact Rule to Protect Workers | |
| Whole Foods Workers Tell the Whole Story about Whole Foods | |
| April 04, 2003 | |
| Nationwide Ad Campaign Exposes Worker Issues at Natural Food Giant | |
| Whole Foods Workers Rally for a Voice at Work | |
| April 03, 2003 | |
| Rally and Press Conference on Friday, April 4, 2003 at 12:45 p.m. at the Whole Foods Market 24th Street and 7th Avenue in New York | |
| Tyson Foods Uses PETA Supporter To Supply Scabs in Jefferson, Wisconsin Pepperoni Plant Strike | |
| March 26, 2003 | |
| Tyson Foods is using Scott Mayer, operator of QPS Staffing Services of Greenfield, Wisconsin, and an avowed supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to provide "scabs" in a pepperoni plant strike in Jefferson, Wisconsin. | |
| GENUARDI'S WORKERS TO LAUNCH "SOS" CAMPAIGN TO SAVE OUR STORES | |
| March 12, 2003 | |
| (Philadelphia, PA) Genuardi’s workers will launch a campaign to Save Our Stores at a press conference and rally on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 at 12:30 p.m. Two years ago, Safeway bought the long-time Philadelphia family-owned grocery chain and has driven it into the ground. Customers and workers are deeply disappointed in Safeway’s management of our local chain. Workers are fighting back. | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: | |
| March 11, 2003 | |
| Labor Board Judge Rules Retail Giant Illegally Tried to Silence Workers Wal-Mart Ordered to Remove Anti-Union Language from Benefits Materials | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: JUDGE ORDERS REINSTATEMENT, BACKPAY FOR WAL-MART WORKER | |
| March 11, 2003 | |
| Wal-Mart Ordered to Remove Anti-Union Language from National Employee Benefits Materials | |
| Wal-Mart Snatches Domain Name to Block Union Talk | |
| March 04, 2003 | |
| Wal-Mart takes domain name in order to block union talk | |
| Workers Strike Tyson Foods | |
| February 28, 2003 | |
| Workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Jefferson, Wisc., set up picket lines after overwhelmingly rejecting a company offer that would cut wages and risk the loss of medical treatment for workers' families. | |
| WHOLE FOODS CAMPAIGN GROWS | |
| February 19, 2003 | |
| Workers at the nation's largest natural food supermarket chain are building a movement for a voice on the job with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Workers at the store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia, filed for Labor Board election to join UFCW Local 400 on January 31, 2003. The election date has not been set. | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: | |
| February 05, 2003 | |
| Retail Giant Faces Trial for Illegal Campaign to Suppress Worker Rights | |
| Wal-Mart Bull Buster | |
| January 29, 2003 | |
| Facts about Wal-Mart | |
| Statement by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union | |
| January 23, 2003 | |
| UFCW Statement regarding President Bush's Smallpox Vaccination Program | |
| RAINBOW FOODS WORKERS TO STAND UP FOR FAIRNESS | |
| January 22, 2003 | |
| Rally and Press Conference Planned on Friday, January 24, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. Rainbow Food Store, 6700 W. State Street—Wauwatosa | |
| DOMINO SUGAR WORKERS WIN SWEETER FUTURE | |
| January 13, 2003 | |
| Domino Sugar Workers' Strike Ends with improved contract | |
| STRIKING DOMINO SUGAR WORKERS FROM BALTIMORE | |
| January 08, 2003 | |
| On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 392 member is stepping up its pressure on Domino Sugar by reaching out to sugar workers in Savannah, Georgia. Striking workers from the Domino plant in Baltimore, Maryland have formed "Truth Squads," named for their commitment to speak the truth to consumers, workers, and the community about Domino's attempts to undermine workers' family health care and retirement security. | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: | |
| January 08, 2003 | |
| Illegal Surveillance, Threats and Intimidation Marks Wal-Mart's Campaign to Suppress Worker Voices | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: | |
| January 07, 2003 | |
| Labor Board Finds Wal-Mart Orchestrating Illegal Surveillance of Employees Wal-Mart Breaks the Law, Again, and Denies Workers a Voice | |
| WAL-MART'S WAR ON WORKERS: | |
| January 07, 2003 | |
| Labor Board Finds Wal-Mart Orchestrating Illegal Surveillance of Employees Wal-Mart Breaks the Law, Again, and Denies Workers a Voice | |
| STRIKING DOMINO WORKERS LAUNCH TRUTH SQUAD | |
| January 05, 2003 | |
| On Sunday, January 5, 2003, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), Local 392 is stepping up its pressure on Domino Sugar. Striking workers from the Domino plant in Baltimore, Maryland are forming "Truth Squads," named for their commitment to speak the truth to consumers, workers, and the community about Domino's attempts to undermine workers' family health care and retirement security. | |
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