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>Supermarket [Giant] [KROGER] Strips Unvaccinated Employees Of Their Benefits
UFCW is the union for Kroger workers.
https://www.ufcw.org/actions/campaign/kroger-union/
UFCW objects to Kroger dropping mask requirement
https://www.13abc.com/2021/05/20/ufcw-objects-to-kroger-dropping-mask-requirement/
re: Biden administration’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, meanwhile, described the expanded federal COVID vaccination requirement as “an important first step” in protecting grocery, food, retail and other industry workers but noted that employees must have a say in how the policies are implemented in the workplace.
November 5, 2021
https://www.supermarketnews.com/issues-trends/fmi-nga-question-timing-osha-covid-19-vaccine-mandate
UFCW has long said that voluntary workplace safety guidance was not enough
UFCW recently negotiated a vaccine mandate at Tyson Foods that resulted in a 96 percent vaccination rate among frontline employees and secured the first national paid leave for meatpacking workers at the company, a historic breakthrough in the industry.
UFCW is urging all CEOs to follow this model as they move to enact the policies announced today.
November 4, 2021
https://www.ufcw.org/press-releases/ufcw-biden-vaccine-and-workplace-safety-rule-key-first-step-workers-must-have-voice-to-ensure-fair-implementation-as-covid-risks-continue/
UFCW secured the deal for Tyson workers to be able to earn up to 20 hours of paid sick leave as part of the union’s negotiations with Tyson over its new vaccine mandate.
“to ensure more frontline workers can get the vaccine without fear of losing a paycheck”
https://www.ufcw.org/press-releases/ufcw-tyson-announce-first-national-paid-sick-leave-for-american-meatpacking-workers-in-covid-vaccine-policy/
>paid sick leave
>to ensure more frontline workers can get the vaccine without fear of losing a paycheck
Because [they] know that getting the vaccine will make workers sick?
UFCW president Marc Perrone says that he’s not comfortable with Tyson’s mandate. “It is concerning that [Tyson] is implementing this mandate before the FDA has fully approved the vaccine,” UFCW president Marc Perrone said in a statement quoted by CNN Tuesday. “We believe the FDA must provide full approval of the vaccines and help address some of the questions and concerns that workers have.”
Aug 06, 2021
https://www.foodprocessing.com/industrynews/2021/unions-an-obstacle-to-vaccine-mandates/
Although the UFCW was formerly a member of the Service Employees International Union-led Change to Win union federation, it has subsequently rejoined the AFL-CIO.
Of the ten highest-paid union presidents by salary for 2016, three head UFCW local unions.
The UFCW and its local unions are major political players in the liberal movement. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the UFCW was the 15th-largest organizational contributor to federal political candidates from the beginning of the collection of records through early 2017 and directed over 99 percent of its contributions to Democrats and liberals.
The UFCW uses dues money to fund numerous liberal organizations. In 2016, the UFCW reported contributions to… (includes Economic Policy Institute).
https://www.influencewatch.org/labor-union/united-food-and-commercial-workers/
Read Career Paths and Twitter Feeds of Economic Policy Institute Board Members.
(Socialists? Communists? Soros flunkies? Defund the Police? And on and on…)
https://www.epi.org/about/board/