UFCW’s assets: $199 million in 2014 - $521 million in 2022.
Retail: 800,000 grocery workers
118,000 in other stores.
Food Processing, Meat-Packing and Manufacturing 250,000 workers.
Distillery, Wine and Allied Workers 5,000 Cannabis10,000
Health Care Division 55,000 workers.
https://labornotes.org/2025/05/ufcw-president-stepping-down-successor-be-appointed-week
#foodworkers
#frombelow #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions
Essential Workers for Democracy #EW4D
Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union #RWDSU a #UFCW affiliate.
United Food and Commercial Workers President Mark Perrone is expected to announce his retirement this week, according to sources close to the union’s leadership. UFCW has 1.3 million members in the U.S. and Canada, mainly in grocery and meatpacking. A special meeting of the union’s 55-person International Executive Board has been called for May 13. The board is expected to choose Perrone’s successor there. UFCW presidents are supposed to be elected by delegates to the union’s conventions, which occur every five years.
🚨 Union news alert!
The Recreational Equipment, Inc. (better known as "REI") store in Greensboro, NC has authorized #RWDSU to represent them and has filed for a union election! A "yes" vote would make them the 11th publicly unionized REI store to be recognized by the NLRB. REI management continues to negotiate in bad faith, so every store that joins the struggle puts more pressure on them to start living by the co-op principals that they profess to believe in.
Barnes & Noble Inc. workers #Organize at seven stores across the United States & #Rutgers University in #NewJersey www.barnesandnobleunion.org
The Retail, Wholesale & Department Store #Union (#RWDSU) represents 100,000 members throughout the United States. The RWDSU is affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (#UFCW)
Workers at Barnes & Noble unionized stores in New York City organized with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), rallied with fellow New York City unionized bookstore workers including workers from McNally Jackson represented by RWDSU Local 1102, the Strand in Union Square wh
Hi all! If you're in New York City, the #REI union is planning a rally on Thursday May 23rd, go out and show them some support! They'd love to have a contingent of real cooperatives if possible, so get your co-ops together and show them some love!
They're also running this petition this week since it's REI's big yearly sale: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-rei-board-stop-union-busting-bargain-a-fair-contract
Please sign our petition and demand that REI stops union busting and bargain a fair contract with their workers. By signing our petition, you are demonstrating your solidarity and support for REI workers fighting for a fair contract.
Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit
Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
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#alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
#inthesetimes #kimKelly
#Amazon #Canada: we are seeing Amazon roll out its despicable #UnionBusting tactics just like it has around the world. But we know the solution is global worker #solidarity
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/amazon-workers-in-canada-file-for-union-representation-with-unifor/
#unions #union #Unifor #Vancouver #GMBUnion #strike #strikes #RWDSU #Teamsters #ver.di #UNI #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/amazon-pay-strike-black-friday-202236636.html
#MakeAmazonPay, #BlackFriday: 80 organizations, 400 politicians join largest day of industrial disruption in #Amazon history
#UNIGlobalUnion #union #unions #strike #strikes #ProgressiveInternational #Coventry #OccupyLondon #Teamsters #RWDSU #FilcamsCGIL #Verdi #CCOO
#CocaCola continues to violate the fundamental rights of workers in #Haiti, #Indonesia, #Ireland and the #USofA.
Send a message to Coca-Cola's CEO and Chairman #JamesQuincey, expressing your outrage over these ongoing human rights violations and demanding the Company act to remedy them. Your name will also be added to a petition that will be delivered to The Coca-Cola Company.
https://www.iufcampaigns.org/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=1152
via #IUF #IUTA #IUL #SYTBRACOUR #SIPTU #RWDSU #UFCW #Solidarity #WorkersRights
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