Rite Aid Members Stand Strong Together!
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Fall 2018 Rite Aid members stand strong together! Nomination of Officers: Official notice on page 15 Thanksgiving Contents Nov. 22, 23 Union President’s Report Union Representative’s Report offices Christmas Labor History Series introduction Surviving social media Dec. 24, 25 3 11 closed: New Year’s Day What’s Happening MAP Jan 1, 2019 4 Retirements, marriages, births 12 Donate blood/Alcohol awareness Negotiations Update Trust Fund Scholarship Rite Aid members reject co. offer Congratulations recipients! Next Quarterly 5 13 Membership Meetings: Rosie’s Corner News from Other Places 6 Women candidates run on courage Dodger Dogs now UNION! Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018 14 Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 Reflections on Labor Day Official Notice Local 1167 Scholarship Winners Nominations of union officers Meetings start at 7 p.m. 7 15 New Member meetings are also held Labor History Series ON THE COVER: monthly at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at: Former President Bill Brooks Members at UFCW Local 1167 Auditorium 8 recalls ‘family’ strength 855 W. San Bernardino Ave. Rite Aid 5717, Riverside Bloomington, CA 92316 MAP NEW MEMBER DESERT EDGE MEETINGS Joe Duffle Here to help Editor MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Are you a new member of Official quarterly publication of UFCW Local 1167? Has one of your Local 1167, United Food and If you have problems Health Management Center co-workers recently joined our union? Commercial Workers International Union with : Alcohol, drugs, any time, day or night, Get up to a $65 credit toward your Serving San Bernardino, Riverside and children & adolescents, 24 hours a day, Imperial Counties, California. initiation fee when you attend a family, emotional issues, seven days a week. New Member Orientation Meeting Headquarters: gambling, marriage All calls are confidential. within six months of your hire date. 855 W. San Bernardino Ave. and/or financial/legal. Bloomington, CA 92316 Food Division Eligible active or retired call (800) 461-9179 Call (909) 877-5000 for dates, Mailing address: locations and answers to any questions. P.O. Box 1167 members can call the toll- Drug Division Bloomington, CA 92316 free MAP number at the call (866) 268-2510 Union offices are open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays Notice to all members: Your dues are now payable! If you are one of the few members of the local who are NOT YET signed up for dues checkoff: YOUR DUES ARE NOW DUE Business telephone: AND PAYABLE. IF YOUR DUES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY SUS - (909) 877-5000 PEND YOURSELF. Toll-free telephone: (800) 698-UFCW With dues checkoff, all future dues can be deducted automatically from your pay check. If you do not have an authorization form, call the local and one will be sent to you immediately. Food and Meat Division insurance: (909) 877-1110 Nonpayment or payment of the incorrect amount will automatically suspend you — a costly and inconvenient mistake. Although not required, the local, as a courtesy, normally sends billing notices by first-class mail to those not on dues checkoff. It is the Drug & General Sales Division insurance: member’s obligation to pay dues in a timely manner. Not receiving a notice is not an excuse for failure to pay dues on time. (909) 877-2331 Avoid suspension. Authorize dues checkoff today! Telephone hours: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Published by Wfor imaptocrtahnt yinfoorumarti omn fraomi lyoburo hexa!lth benefits Trust Fund. Got questions? Contact the Trust Fund (ext. 424): www.ufcw1167.org (714) 220-2297 • (562) 408-2715 • (877) 284-2320 • www.scufcwfunds.com 2 DESERT EDGE President’s Report Joe Duffle Union growth and progress continue areas, most famously the A & P AY 10, T. M 193 ES 7 chain. There were enough people who could walk on city streets to the markets and also roads and paved streets to keep big stores LABOR HISTORY supplied by increasing numbers of SERIES motorized vehicles. Few employees of what were called “Mom and Pop” shops in May 10, 2017 marked the 80th those days made a living, usually anniversary of the granting of Local only Mom and Pop themselves. As 1167’s Charter by the Retail Clerks today, controlling labor costs were International Protective Association, crucial to operating at a profit. as the UFCW was then known. The Without strong unions, non-owner Charter lists the names of 17 employees worked “at will,” that is, members in Riverside County. In at the whim and will of employers. observance of that historic event, a In those days images of “Bob” series of articles recording the and “Suzy” hurrying to their fam - union’s history and featuring major ily’s grocery store or butcher shop historical figures will appear in each after class in high school to haul JOE DUFFLE edition of upcoming Desert Edge sides of beef or put cans on the President magazines. shelves and lift the huge tubs of flex their united muscles. butter into the freezer compartment Sad to say, none of this history is behind the counter were quite accu - taught in American schools any upermarkets as a national rate. more as it once was. Rather, today phenomenon didn’t really Full-time work outside the fam - we have the intense, aggressive take off until after the end ily was rare. Where it existed, pay move to bring back the bad old of World War II in 1946. was pitifully low, with no benefits days when the employers did what - Before then Americans bought their of any kind, and worker exploita - ever they wanted with their people Sgroceries, meat and other house - tion was rampant. No vacation, no to maximize profits. hold consumer products in mainly retirement, no medical coverage, Your local union, in conjunction family owned and operated stores. no job security — no nothing. And with the UFCW International East of the Mississippi, espe - nothing to do about it. Union, remain towers of strength in cially, the large population concen - If an employee got sick and did - defense of what the union has trations and extensive road n’t work, he or she didn’t get paid. achieved over eight decades. networks required to supply and for If workers didn’t like it, they could Through them, we unite to im - easy customer access did not exist. seek employment elsewhere — that prove the lives of our fellow union Before the war there were some is, until the Retail Clerks and the members and all who work for supermarkets in large metropolitan Butchers started to organize and wages. Fall 2018 3 What’s Happening IN MEMORIAM Vons. Freddy Martinez worked for 31 years for Benjamin Alkano, a meat wrapper Albertsons. Maria Swager worked 31 years for employed by Food 4 Less, died on May 3 at Just Married Vons. Carol Parker worked 30 years for the age of 58. He had been a member since Albertsons and Safeway. Terri Garber worked January 2017. 30 years for Albertsons and Lucky. Cathy Maine worked 30 years for Albertsons and Lucky. Warren Barber, a retired food clerk Ashley Anderson, Albertsons, married Scott Shelley Lopez worked 28 years for Stater Bros. formerly employed by Mayfair, Stater Bros. Munson on July 2 at the Riverside Court House. Michele McKinney worked 28 years for and Vons, died on Aug. 1 at the age of 83. Albertsons. William Hudson worked 26 years He had been a member since June 1952. for Albertsons. John Espinosa worked 25 years Rob Barnhart, an affiliated member for Stater Bros. Elizabeth White worked 25 Just Retired years for Albertsons, Mega Foods and Super employed by Rite Aid, died on May 29 at the Saver. Debbra Covert worked 20 years for Food age of 52. He had been a continuous 4 Less. Karen Walters worked 18 years for member since December 2009. Wayne Baughman worked 51 years for Stater Vons and Stater Bros. Concepcion Chavez Sharon Gervais, a retired food clerk Bros. Stephen Brock worked 49 years for Stater worked 18 years for Ralphs. Diane Meehan formerly employed by Vons, died on April 11 worked 14 years for Stater Bros. Steve Ramirez Bros. Louis West worked 47 years for Ralphs. at the age of 75. She had been a member worked 8 years for Ralphs. Robert Dalton worked 47 years for Alpha Beta since November 1968. and Ralphs. Robert Soriano worked 45 years for Vons. Megan Poole worked 44 years for James Hewitson, a retired meat cutter Alpha Beta and Ralphs. Armando Viveros formerly employed by Smith’s, Stater Bros. worked 43 years for Albertsons, Fed Mart, and Just Born and Vons, died on May 19 at the age of 77. Lucky. Timothy Brown worked 40 years for He had been a continuous member since Stater Bros. Julie Haskins worked 37 years for March 1963. Ralphs. Lilia Ray worked 35 years for Vons. Alberto Mondragon, Stater Bros., has a new Theresa Morales worked 35 years for Alpha daughter, Camila Jacilyn Sanchez-Mondragon, who Bernie Martinez, a retired food clerk Beta and Ralphs. Djuna Pratt worked 35 years was born on June 3 weighing 6 lbs. 10 oz. formerly employed by Stater Bros., died on for Albertsons and Lucky. William Kerr worked Samantha Pfluger, Vons, has a new son, Logan June 19 at the age of 66. He had been a 34 years for Stater Bros. Robert Reed worked Pfluger, who was born on July 5 weighing 9 lbs. 3 continuous member since May 1967. 34 years for Albertsons and Lucky. Tim Lefever oz. Frances Nava, Ralphs, has a new daughter, Carl Metzger, a retired meat cutter formerly Nevaeh Duarte, who was born on April 25 weighing worked 32 years for Luck and Stater Bros.