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November
Sticker Campaign Begins Next Week
Thousands of UFCW members on the West Coast in the grocery industry
kicked off a campaign revving up for next year’s contract negotiations by
wearing stickers on October 25-29th. The members wore the
stickers as a compelling demonstration of
unity and solidarity in their calls for affordable and quality health care.
From Portland to Seattle, and all the way down to Los Angeles, and in Montana--UFCW
members banded together in hundreds of grocery stores. They sent the
powerful message that healthy communities and affordable quality health care go
hand-in-hand—as captured by stickers that read “Affordable Health Care for
Healthy Communities."
The sticker campaign that took place last weekend represents a
critical step towards persuading companies to do the right thing by providing
quality, affordable health care. Some grocery workers already have great health
care—however, others don’t. Health care benefits are probably going to be a big
issue at the bargaining table this year, not only for grocery workers but also
for the communities they live in.
“With so many people working in the grocery industry, if
these workers don’t have health care, then medical costs will eventually get
shifted to their communities,” said UFCW Local 81 member Anna McCalister, of Top Foods in the Puget Sound area. “These stickers show that health care is
something that’s important to us—but it’s also important to all Americans. If we
fight for it, it will benefit everybody.”
See
pictures
and video
from October sticker campaign.
And the sticker fever will soon spread to the rest of the
country, as UFCW members nationwide begin wearing stickers at the end of
November. Members in St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Houston,
Minneapolis, and other cities across the U.S. will join members on the West
Coast in wearing a new sticker with a new theme--and truly demonstrating the
national scope of the '06-'07 grocery industry bargaining effort.
We Are Powerful When We Speak Together.
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