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 »

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 »

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 »

Another Fine Example of Union Hypocrisy

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 12:00 AM  | 

You know that old adage about throwing stones and living in glass houses, right?  Well, when it comes to hypocritical moments, today’s union bosses sometimes just outdo themselves in ways that leave you just shaking your head in astonishment. Take, for example, the United Food & Commercial Workers union (UFCW).  Even if you’ve never heard of the UFCW, you’re probably familiar with their work.  You | Read More »

When Union Boycotts Fail: A look at today’s pathetic union tactics

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  July 6th at 11:50 PM  | 

In early March, the United Food & Commercial Workers rejected a contract offer from Shaw’s  Supermarkets and 300 distribution center workers walked out on strike. Since that time, the strikers have been replaced, the UFCW has collected donations,  marched and are futilely trying to boycott Shaw’s.  Now, having exhausted its tactics aimed at putting pressure on Shaw’s, the UFCW has resorted to trespassing in order | Read More »

Not Your Normal UFCW Strike

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 16th at 09:59 PM  | 

With unions, they just go together like hand and glove:  Strikes and unions, that is. A unionized workforce negotiates with management.  Management gives the union workers a lousy offer and the union workers strike. It happens more often than most union bosses would care to admit. And they really would rather you not know about this. The United Food & Commercial Workers is a 1.3 million-member | Read More »

UNBELIEVABLE! Ousted Union Bosses Get Truck & Car As Retirement Gift!

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 8th at 11:46 PM  | 

A week ago, we wrote about Crisanta Duran’s campaign for Congress.  Ms. Duran is the daughter of accused nepotist and money mismanager, Ernie Duran, Jr. the outgoing boss of Colorado’s UFCW Local 7. As Mr. Duran was voted out of office earlier this year amid allegations of improprieties, it seems his soon-to-be former members may have made the right call. According to Denver’s Westword, the outgoing Executive | Read More »

After Biting Basha’s Into Bankruptcy, Union Calls Off Attack Dogs

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 5th at 02:22 PM  | 

The United Food & Commercial Workers hates nonunionized grocery stores. So much so, in fact, that the UFCW bosses’ approach to nonunion grocers has been, as former UFCW president Doug Dority declared, to: “…either reduce these chains’ market share … or we must put them out of business. There is no other option.” Tom McNutt, another UFCW chieftain, also stated, “If we can’t organize [nonunion supermarkets], | Read More »

The Union Boss’ Daughter Files For House Seat

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 05:32 PM  | 

The daughter of Ernie Duran, Jr., the accused nepotist and money mismanager, as well as soon-to-be ex-president of United Food & Commercial Workers’ Local 7 in Denver has filed papers to run for the House District 5 seat being vacated by a term-limited Joel Judd. Crisanta Duran, is legal counsel for the UFCW local, as well as listed as the 19th vice president (out of | Read More »

UFCW bosses quibble on constitutional language as member claims union is “playing games with our lives…”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  November 9th at 07:54 PM  | 

Amidst the worst recession in a generation, members of the United Food & Commercial Workers are upset with their union for, of all things, not allowing them to walk off their jobs. In Colorado, where UFCW Local 7 has been negotiating for more than six months with the grocery chains there, local union members have urged their parent union in Washington to give them permission | Read More »