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Teresa
Iverson,
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Denise
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News
Tacoma
City Grocer/ IGA
opens with picket signs, and picketing continues
Non-union IGA met with protest
Owner
Tyler Myers a long-time
anti-union business owner
Tacoma – On Tuesday, September 6, when
the Tacoma City Grocery/IGA opened, owner Tyler Myers
was met by protesters carrying picket signs. The
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 367 is alarmed
over the fact that Myers is opening a non-union store in
downtown Tacoma that threatens to lower the area
standards, hurting union stores and their employees in
surrounding neighborhoods.
Quoted on a KOMO blog in April, Tyler
Myers of the Myers Group said that in 30 years none of
his employees have ever asked for union representation.
He must have forgotten that in 2003, as the owner of the
IGA in Ocean Shores, Washington, he was involved in the
longest running strike in the history of the Local 367.
Workers of the Ocean Shores IGA voted to
join UFCW Local 367 in the spring of 2003. But Myers
walked away from negotiations with the union after
several months. Nearly a year after bargaining began,
the National Labor Relations Board stepped in and
ordered Myers back to the table.
Then, through legal maneuvering and
tactics, Myers and his attorney were able to stall
bargaining so that a contract was never achieved. Myers
made offers that fell so far below the area standard
that employees could not accept them.
Local 367 plans to extend its Shop Union
campaign to the Tacoma City Grocer/IGA to educate people
in downtown Tacoma that shopping at a non-union grocery
store will be bad for the community. When people shop at
union stores, they are helping their neighbors who work
at those stores earn good livings that will help them
raise strong families and make their communities better
places. Union workers set the standard for pay,
benefits, and working conditions in the community for
all workers. When people shop at non-union stores, they
are enabling those employers to lower the standard of
living for everyone.
"When you shop at non-union stores, you
are helping to put your own neighbors out of work," said
Denise Jagielo, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 367.
Local 367 plans to continue its Shop
Union campaign indefinitely.
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We are the United
Food and Commercial Workers Union
Local 367!
We are 7500 members strong and
growing. Our members work in Pierce, Lewis, Grays
Harbor, Mason, Thurston, and Pacific counties in
Washington State. We represent workers in retail
grocery, retail meat, clothing/textile, pharmacy,
furniture, jewelry, and shoes. We represent health care
workers and hairstylists.
Formed during the Great Depression, we have bargained
strong contracts that have given our members better
wages, benefits, and working conditions for over 75
years. We set the standard so that all workers can get a
leg up.
Why we organize
Building the union in your community not only
helps you and your family, but it also helps raise the
standard of living for all. The more people who become
union members, the more chance workers will have for
better wages, benefits and working conditions. That
includes good affordable health care, and a pension to
help during retirement years.
Union members are paid over 25
percent more than non-union workers. More than 80
percent of union workers have health care coverage, and
greater than 70 percent have pension plans.
When you decide you want a
union in your workplace, you are protected by specific
legal rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
When union members talk to
their friends and families about joining a union, unions
get stronger and the people get the power!
Over one million
strong
Local 367 is chartered by the United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union, which represents over one million
members in the United States and Canada, making it one
of the largest unions in North America.
The successes that have been
achieved at Local 367 came through years of hard work by
the members who came before us. We will continue that
hard work by providing excellent service for our
members.
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