Hammer Away The Loveall Lie At UFCW Local 588

They want to establish a $2 million dollar retail strike and defense fund without increasing dues. If reducing pensions, creating new hire rates, establishing annual health premiums, raising out of pocket co-pays, reducing Sunday rates, etc, etc, and etc, for all the UFCW members was what the Loveall's settled for with the employers during the 2004-2005 contract without calling a strike-then what possible future employer takeaway would the Loveall's feel will be so outrageous that they would resort to a labor strike in the next contract? Sounds like more "bull" to me...

"They want to bring more clout to the bargaining table." The Loveall's had the clout of 30,000 members during the 2004-2005 contract and look what that did for the 30,000 members.

"They want to maintain experienced officers, negotiators and representatives with more than 450 years of contract experience."
If reducing pensions, creating new hire rates, establishing annual health premiums, raising out of pocket co-pays, reducing Sunday rates, etc, etc, and etc, for all the UFCW members, then what did one minute of those 450 years of contract experience do for any UFCW member in the last contract?

"They want to ensure more political strength to secure pro-worker legislation." The only pro-worker legislation that is currently needed is for the workers of UFCW 588 to have a taste of democracy by creating an election of officers every three years. The U.S. Department of Labor requires this but ever since their eyes were shot out by union corruption they can't even see the grease on their palms...

"They want to provide nine member service centers throughout the jurisdiction, 40 dedicated Union Reps to enforce contracts and 100 experienced staff members to serve you." After reading this highlight, I am starting to believe I know where Larry Johnston found his next job after leaving Albertsons. This statement has Larry Johnston written all over it-which means this is just a bunch of bull.

"They want to create the largest membership of any UFCW affiliate in the Western United States, representing 40 of California's 58 counties." All they want to create is a larger "member dues" base where they can count on their annual pay raises even when the emloyers close a store here or there eliminating a number of replaceable members.

The only thing that this merger highlights is that these crooks get up every morning knowing that sometime during the day they are going to BS somebody...And you can bet that "somebody" is one of their hard working, dues paying, members....

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