Posts Tagged ‘United Food and Commercial Workers’
UFCW Officials Plan Black Friday Protests
https://nilrr.org/wp-admin/post-new.phpHiding behind the name OUR Walmart, union officials are planning to disrupt Black Friday sales by engineering hundreds of protests across the country. While the name, OUR Walmart, implies the movement enjoys the support of Walmart employees, but the distinct lack of involvement among Walmart workers is clearly evident. Bill McMorris has the story in…
Read MoreUnion-led Demonstrations Barred
Courts are increasingly finding union-led demonstrations violatenumerous laws. Ryan Williams has the story in The Hill. Last year the state’s Benton County Circuit Court issued a restraining order prohibiting the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and its “subsidiary” OUR Walmart from any actions on company property or at Walmart events. As a…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Reconsider Obamacare
After throwing their influence, and millions inforced dues, into the passage ofObamacare, union bosses are now rethinking that effort in light to the massive cost increases which have accompaniedits implementation. A Washington Examiner editorial takes a look at this new wrinkle. Union members could be liable for union bosses’ mistaken assumptions. Millions of Americans have…
Read MoreUnion Shoots Down Higher Wages
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 has taken Gian Eagle Foods to court over raises the grocery store gave some union members. James Sherk questions if unions really do speak for their members in The Foundry. Managers at the Giant Eagle grocery in Edinboro, Pa., wanted to reward hard work. So they boosted the…
Read MoreGrocery Union Bosses Force Members and Nonmembers Alike to Pay For Mendacious and Cynical TV Ads
Back in 2010, Pennsylvanians who are fed up with the inordinate power wielded by Big Labor over their state’s economy and government elected a GOP governor and gave the same party control over both chambers of the General Assembly in Harrisburg. At the time, they hoped newly elected Gov. Tom Corbett and his allies in…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, May 05 2014
Finally Free to Leave SEIU, Michigan Home Care Workers Do Exactly That openmarket.org, May 1, 2013 In short, a union-friendly administration created a state body to pose as the “employer” of home care workers receiving state assistance, and then conducted a stealth organizing campaign by mail. (A similar effort in Connecticut led CEI to…
Read MoreMichigan Union Organizers Allegedly Stormed Ladies Restroom
Wal-Mart has filed an unfair labor practice against United Food and Commercial Workers organizers who allegedlyfollowed anemployee into the ladies’ restroom and harassed her. At least one of theorganizers was a male. Bill McMorris has the story in the Washington Free Beacon. The NLRB ordered the United Food and Commercial Workers union and OUR Walmart–a…
Read MoreGrass Roots Activism-Union Boss Style
Michael Saltsman uncovers the truth behind the so-called rallies union bosses have been trying to attribute to fast food and other retail workers. His story appears on triblive.com. Did you hear about last week’s union-organized protests at fast food restaurants? Don’t worry – no one else heard about them, either. These so-called strikes have always…
Read MoreDoes UFCW Speak For Its Members?
UFCW union bosses are not practicing what they preach, according to a report by the Manhattan Institute’s Economics21 division. Here’s the story: The United Food and Commercial Workers union is funding campaigns to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 and unionize fast food workers. But an examination of UFCW contracts with the Kroger Company…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips December 27, 2013
Federal Labor Law Is Anti-Free Speech NILRR, December 25, 2013 Now imagine that, after Smith has been formally seated on the council, you attend a public meeting sponsored by the mayor, as you always have in the past. But when you start to state your opinion about a current issue, the mayor stops you.…
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