UFCW Local 23'S Bargaining Campaign with Giant Eagle Gets
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News & Views Volume 28, Number 3 • Summer, 2010 UFCW Local 23’s bargaining hare campaign T ! with $ Giant Eagle H E $uccess gets underway! WoRkers CoMpensatioN UFCW 23 ClaiMs Local 23 members are being referred to the following attorneys for handling Contact List of workers’ compensation claims. ● PENNSylvania LOCAL 23 BUSINESS AGENTS Healey & Hornack, Pc Main Number (724) 514-3228 Ken Stuart 125 Attorneys at Law Fax Number (724) 514-3236 Leslie Moore-Bond 131 The Pennsylvanian Toll Free 1-800-245-2424 Doren Bowser 111 1100 Liberty Avenue, Suite C-2 Toll Free 1-800-562-2523 Ed Ribeau 133 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Fred Farrell 129 (412) 391-7711 (888) 391-6944 DUBOIS OFFICE Sue Riley 128 ● PENNSylvania Fax (Legal) (814) 375-4178 Bob Kettren 130 (Northwest and Central) Legal (814) 375-2259 Sandy Thompson 112 GoldberG, Persky & WHite Rich Lenhart 127 Attorney Darren K. Parr PRESIDENT’S OFFICE ORGANIZERS 1030 Fifth Avenue Dawn Brown 102 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-6295 Mick Hutchinson 105 (800) 471-3980 Elaine Kuhar 132 EXECUTIVE STAFF ● WEST Virginia Paul Brophy 108 Ken Wrubleski 146 Marc Mancini 141 (Clarksburg, Fairmont, Morgantown) Lance Huber 109 Attorney Robert Cohen Tom Cook 106 CREDIT UNION coHen, abate & coHen Kevin Kilroy 103 Main Number (724) 514-2200 P.O. Box 846 Richard Granger 110 PA Toll Free 1-800-222-8996 Morgantown, WV 26507 Jerry Mettenberger 101 WV-OH-MD 1-800-441-7446 (304) 292-1911 Bryan Bond 143 LEGAL FUND (Wheeling and Ohio Valley) Attorney Patrick S. Cassidy HEALTH FUND Main Number (724) 514-1001 1413 Eoff Street Main Number (724) 743-4260 PA Toll Free 1-800-982-4078 Wheeling, WV 26003 Toll Free 1-800-423-3863 WV-OH-MD 1-800-468-0365 (304) 232-8100 Not Receiving Union Mail? If you have not been Name: ________________________________________________________ receiving your mail from Local 23, it might be because SS#: ________________________________________________________ we have a wrong address or there is an address mix-up! News & Views Employer: _________________________________________________ Have you moved recently? is the official publication of Store Phone: _______________________________________________ Changed your name? Let United Food & Commercial Workers Home Phone:______________________________________________ us know by mailing in this Local 23 change of address form to: 345 Southpointe Blvd., Suite 300 old address UFCW Local 23 Canonsburg, PA 15317 345 Southpointe Blvd., and is published quarterly. Street Address _____________________________________________ Suite 300 City/State_________________________________________________ Canonsburg, PA 15317 Anthony M. Helfer, Editor Zip Code __________________________________________________ Help keep our lists accurate Kevin T. Kilroy, Managing Editor so that we may better serve you. NeW address Toll Free Telephone Number: Be An Informed 1-800-Local23 or 1-800-562-2523 Street Address _____________________________________________ www.ufcw23.org City/State _________________________________________________ Union Zip Code __________________________________________________ Member! 2 UFCW Local 23 • News & Views T h E W a y I S ee I T . our ‘share The success’ Campaign is Underway are 26 large non-union Giant Eagles with those who create those profits. in Columbus, you can see how big We will be in the middle of nego- they are. Most people aren’t aware tiations when this newspaper hits your that there are 40 non-union corporate homes. I encourage the members of by anthony M. Helfer, or franchise Giant Eagles in Western Local 23 to continue standing up and President Pennsylvania and that Giant Eagle is being part of the union. We have seen As you can readily see, we have now bringing back the Valu-King la- a large number of members getting in- redesigned the News & Views of Lo- bel in Cleveland and in Western Penn- volved and we are changing the face cal 23. This format is meant to be an sylvania. Our members aren’t feeling of this Local. We need more activists easier read for our members, but will the success or seeing this success in to build our clout at the bargaining ta- still be packed with great information their pay checks. Thus, the member- ble, in Organizing and in the political about Local 23. I hope that you have ship in Pittsburgh, the very heart of arena. Get involved, participate, make also checked us out on Facebook and Giant Eagle and where their success new friends. We are one powerful voice have become a friend of ours so you began, is saying “Share the Success” when we are united. can receive regular updates on what’s going on at Local 23. Also, I encour- A HISTORIC VICTORY: age members to check out our website. A HISTORIC VICTORY: Our goal is to use every means possible to communicate with our members. Health Care Reform Starts Next, we will tackle Twitter! Health Care Reform Starts If you haven’t heard, we were suc- Working for Working Families Now cessful in passing prevailing wage for Working for Working Families Now the service sector “grocery stores” in the Allegheny County Council. The bill that was passed is very similar to ThanksThanks to your to your hard hard work work over over the the last last year, Congress Congress passed passed a health a health the bill that was passed in Pittsburgh care reformcare reform bill billthat that was was signed signed into into law law by PresidentPresident Obama. Obama. This This landmark landmark City Council. Allegheny County is reformreform is a hard-fought is a hard-fought victory victory for for UFCW UFCW membersmembers and and working working families families the first county in America that has a acrossacross the country. the country. prevailing wage for the service sector. The new reforms will change the face of America’s health care system over the coming The new reforms will change the face of America’s health care system over the coming I thank all the members, staff and our years. Some changes will be gradual, while others will go into eff ect this year. Here are friendly community organizations that years. someSome of changes the positive will changes be gradual, we will while see in others the next will six gomonths: into eff ect this year. Here are helped get this done. Raising the floor some of the positive changes we will see in the next six months: for all workers will benefit our mem- Anyone refused health insurance because of a pre-existing condition can get coverage through a special insurance program. bers at the bargaining table. Anyone refused health insurance because of a pre-existing condition can get coverage through a special insurance program. We are quickly approaching bar- Children can stay on their parents’ insurance longer – until they are 26 years old. gaining with corporate Giant Eagle, Children Senior can citizens stay on will their get a parents’ $250 rebate insurance for prescription longer drugs– until – theythe fi rst are step 26 toyears closing old. our largest contract with almost 5,800 the “donut hole” in Medicare drug coverage. members involved. Our bargaining Senior citizens will get a $250 rebate for prescription drugs – the fi rst step to closing campaign is titled “Share the Suc- the “donut Small businesseshole” in Medicare get signifi drugcant tax coverage. credits for providing health insurance to their employees. cess”. Giant Eagle has grown sub- Small businesses get signifi cant tax credits for providing health insurance to their stantially in the past four years, 51% To learn more about health care reform and how it will aff ect you, employees. growth in the past five years and now visit http://www.ufcwhealthcarenow.org or http://www.healthreform.gov/ 153 GetGo locations and a bottling To learn more about health care reform and how it will aff ect you, plant in Latrobe. When you consider visit http://www.ufcwhealthcarenow.org or http://www.healthreform.gov/ that Cleveland Local 880 has 10,000 Giant Eagle members and that there Summer, 2010 3 The Bud Lutty Charitable Scholarship Trust summary Annual Report April 30, 2010 included $47,500 in Scholarships en above does not include a charge for This is a summary of the annual awarded and paid. During the Plan copying of these portions of the report report of the Bud Lutty Charitable Year, the Fund allocated $20,000 for because these portions are furnished Scholarship Trust, EIN 25-1720647. Scholarships to be paid in the Plan without charge. The annual report has been filed with Year 2010. You also have the legally protected the Internal Revenue Service, as re- right to examine the annual report quired under the Employee Retirement Your RIGHTS TO Additional at the main office of the Plan, 345 Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). INFORmation Southpointe Boulevard, Suite 200, The Plan Administrator is the Board You have the right to receive a copy Canonsburg, PA 15317, and at the U.S. of Trustees. of the full annual report, or any part Department of Labor in Washington, The Plan Administrator, which is thereof, on request. The items listed DC or to obtain a copy from the the Board of Trustees, has committed below are included in that report: U.S. Department of Labor upon itself to provide scholarships under the 1. An accountant’s report payment of copying costs. Requests terms of the Plan. 2. Assets held for investment to the Department of Labor should To obtain a copy of the full annual be addressed to Public Disclosure Basic Financial StatemENT report or any part thereof, write or call Room, N5507, Pension and Welfare The value of Plan assets, after sub- the office of the Board of Trustees at Benefit Programs, U.S. Department of tracting liabilities of the Plan was 345 Southpointe Boulevard, Suite 200, Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, $42,463 as of December 31, 2009, Canonsburg, PA 15317, Telephone: Washington, DC 20216.