UFCW Bosses Busted For Racketeering, Extortion, Money Laundering & More…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 28th at 02:30 PM  | 

A powerful United Food & Commercial Workers local union (348s) in New York was closed for business on Thursday as police arrested three family members who run the union local. Police arrested the president, former president, and treasurer of Local 348 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) on Thursday. Anthony Fazio Sr., John Fazio Jr., and Anthony Fazio Jr. were charged with racketeering, | Read More »

BLS September Mass Layoff Report: It’s unpleasant and inconvenient

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 25th at 01:35 PM  | 

It’s become something of a legend among unions and the nation’s labor relations community but, for those old enough to remember the mid-90s, when Whole Foods was under constant attack by the United Food & Commercial Workers, John Mackey, Whole Foods’ CEO once shared his opinion of unions with a reporter, as follows: “The union is like having herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s | Read More »

A Primer For Union Members: How Not To Be Burned During A Union Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 18th at 07:30 PM  | 

Back in the day, before Darth Vader saw the light at the end of the movie and when strikes were more prevalent than they are today, there was a time when union bosses conditioned their members for the eventuality that negotiations could break down and union members might be on strike—for a long, long time. Now, with the CWA and IBEW’s 45,000 members on strike | Read More »

Union Targets Target and Misses

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 18th at 12:20 PM  | 

The United Food & Commercial Workers, following years of failed efforts at unionized mega-retailer Wal-Mart, grocer Whole Foods and seeing some of its unionized employers like A&P file for bankruptcy, had set its sights on a new target: Target. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board conducted a secret-ballot election in Valley Stream, NY at one of Target’s approximately 1750 U.S. stores.  If the union won, | Read More »

Nation’s First Unionized Pot Farm Goes Bust, Oakland Loses Bid to Be Cannabis Capital

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Last year, prior to the defeat of California’s Proposition 19, it appeared as though unions had a budding new industry in which they could grow their memberships. First, the United Food & Commercial Workers jumped onto the cannabis bandwagon. Then, the Teamsters waded into the weed growing business when Jimmy Hoffa’s union unionized 40 pot growers in Oakland, California. Pretty soon, all of the unions (it | Read More »

Marxists Meet, Part I: UFCW Rep. Calls for Seizing Private Property & World Socialism

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 28th at 04:00 PM  | 

Most people realize that the electoral victories on November 2nd were but a brief respite in the battle for America. What many do not know, however, it that a mere eleven days after the GOP swept the House of Representatives, the Workers World Party held its annual conference on November 13th and 14th in New York City to discuss the fight for worldwide socialism and | Read More »

They Did It Again! When Unions End Up Representing Replacement Workers

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 13th at 08:00 AM  | 

In February 1995, having the occasion to visit a picket line in Virginia where union members had been on strike for 11 months, was an enlightening experience. Having only left the union movement a few years earlier, it was that strike in Virginia where my belief that today’s unions are but a facade—union in name only—was confirmed. In that small Virginia town, union members had gone | Read More »

ObamaCare: The Chickens Come Home to Roost…

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 15th at 05:15 AM  | 

By now, most Americans know how hard union bosses pushed, tugged, bullied and threatened, using tens of millions of their members’ money on advertising and lobbying, all to get health care reform passed.  Most Americans also remember (though many did not believe) the promises that health care reform would make health care “affordable for all.” And no one can forget how the legislation was sold to Americans: | Read More »

Democrats Are Funding Their Campaigns With Money Taken From Foreign Nationals

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 13th at 03:30 PM  | 

Do you remember the game of Whack-A-Mole?  You know, the game you play on the boardwalk or at the county fair where, for a couple of bucks, you can win a stuffed toy for ‘whacking’ these stupid cartoonish-looking moles on the head with a mallet when they pop up? Well, this one is almost too easy. Last week, when the White House and DNC launched | Read More »

As the Worm Turns: Andrew Cuomo Lied to Union & Media.

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  October 6th at 10:00 AM  | 

Over the summer, from May until September, members of the RWDSU (an affiliate of the United Food & Commercial Workers) in Williamson, New York were out on strike for 112 days against their employer Mott’s, which is owned by Dr. Pepper Snapple. Andrew Cuomo* (son of Mario) is running to fill his father’s shoes as governor in New York against Carl Paladino.  In so doing, | Read More »