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| 2009 | ||||||||||
| SENATE FREE RIDER PROVISION GIVES NATION’S LARGEST EMPLOYER A FREE RIDE | ||||||||||
| November 04, 2009 | ||||||||||
| UFCW Releases Briefing Paper Detailing How Free Rider Provision Would Incentivize Irresponsible Walmart Employment Practices and Diminish Shared Responsibility for Health Care Reform | ||||||||||
| Walmart to Finally Pay Some Workers | ||||||||||
| November 03, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Today Walmart announced it will pay $85 million dollars to hundreds of thousands of current and former Walmart workers for not compensating them for the work they performed. This lawsuit settlement is the latest in a string of multi-million dollar payouts by Walmart as it attempts to distance itself from a track record of poor employment practices and violations of workplace laws. | ||||||||||
| UFCW EXPRESSES STRONG SUPPORT FOR HOUSE HEALTH CARE BILL | ||||||||||
| October 29, 2009 | ||||||||||
| The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) released the following statement today in response to the unveiling of the House health care bill. | ||||||||||
| UFCW Occupational Safety and Health Office Recommendations to Local Unions on H1N1 | ||||||||||
| October 21, 2009 | ||||||||||
| The CDC has developed Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to the 2009-2010 Influenza Season. The new guidance currently applies to any flu virus circulating during the 2009-2010 flu season, not only 2009 H1N1 flu virus. | ||||||||||
| UFCW Statement on OSHA Rulemaking on Combustible Dust | ||||||||||
| October 20, 2009 | ||||||||||
| OSHA Combustible Dust | ||||||||||
| FRED MEYER CALLS POLICE ON ITS OWN WORKERS’ UNION REPRESENTATIVES | ||||||||||
| October 16, 2009 | ||||||||||
| On Thursday, October 15, 2009, the Hillsboro store manager at Fred Meyer created a scene when he called police to arrest three union representatives for talking with workers—a right guaranteed to workers under federal law. | ||||||||||
| US Chemical Safety Board Fails to Recommend Safety Standards for American Workers | ||||||||||
| October 02, 2009 | ||||||||||
| The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) today again criticized the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) for not recommending strong standards to prevent deadly explosions in food processing and other facilities that use natural gas. | ||||||||||
| US Chemical Safety Board Again Fails to Stand for Better Safety Rules for America's Workers | ||||||||||
| September 24, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Several international unions representing hundreds of thousands of chemical and food industry workers today again criticized the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) for not recommending strong standards to prevent deadly explosions in factories handling combustible dusts, despite the board’s prior endorsement of such a step. | ||||||||||
| STATEMENT BY JOE HANSEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED FOOD AND COMMERICAL WORKERS UNION, ON ON UNITE HERE AFL-CIO AFFILIATION | ||||||||||
| September 17, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Hansen statement on Unite Here reaffiliating with AFL-CIO | ||||||||||
| STATEMENT FROM THE UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ON SENATOR BAUCUS’ HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL | ||||||||||
| September 17, 2009 | ||||||||||
| UFCW Statement on Baucus Bill | ||||||||||
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