Rite Aid Contract Ratified! — Thanks to the Solidarity of Members and Their Communities President’S Report, Page 3 Dec
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Winter 2018 Rite Aid contract ratified! — thanks to the solidarity of members and their communities President’s Report, page 3 Dec. 25 & 26 Christmas Contents Jan. 1 Union President’s Report Union Representative’s Report New Year’s Day Solidarity sets tone for negotiations Surviving social media offices Jan. 21 3 11 Martin Luther King Jr. closed: What’s Happening Bill Sauriol Scholarship March 29 Retirements, marriages, births Kimberly Lee Cesar Chavez Day 4 12 Rite Aid Members Local 1167 Scholarship Kaiser members ratify contract 13 Congratulations to recipients! Next Quarterly 5 Membership Meetings: Rosie’s Corner Union Reps Report 6 Women candidates win big! 14 Avoid Insubordination! Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2019 Legislative Update More Union News SB 1442 Victory for Pharmacists President Duffle calls out the Meetings start at 7 p.m. 7 15 Baseball Players Union New Member meetings are also held Labor History Series monthly at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at: ON THE COVER: 8 Former President Bill Sauriol Member Indira Hernandez and UFCW Local 1167 Auditorium recalls decades of growth, progress children at Rite Aid 5716, Riverside 855 W. San Bernardino Ave. 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 Solidarity’s success at Rite Aid sets tone for upcoming supermarket talks am so proud of our members at Rite rights you have to file a grievance to Aid who stood strong with their co- correct improper treatment toward you workers, their communities and cer - or loss of wages or benefits you may tainly their fellow union members have been wrongly denied. who came out from Albertsons, Ralphs Please complete your questionnaires IVons, Food 4 Less, CVS and JBS! so we can have a clear idea of our goals Your solidarity gave UFCW Local in this process. 1167 and six other UFCW unions in Southern California the strength we Keep doing your part needed to reach a successful agreement As negotiations begin, please keep with Rite Aid’s management after doing your part by speaking positively months of contentious negotiations. about your union at every opportunity, The three-year contract guarantees at home and especially at the work - wage increases and protects pensions place. Make it clear to your employer and health care for current and retired that you stand with your sisters and members was ratified by the Rite Aid brothers 100 percent! members in October. Throughout the process, it will be This was a long and hard fight, but we important for all union members to stay all, especially our members, understood informed through reliable channels. what was at stake, rallying to defend the JOE DUFFLE Some employers have been known to standards that were set through negotia - President spread misinformation and anti-union tions of past contracts. propaganda in an attempt to divide and Our members at Albertsons, Ralphs, conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” weaken our ranks. If you see this happen - Stater Bros. and Vons performed an im - I have no doubt of our ability to pre - ing, don’t believe any of it and let your portant role in this success by pledging vail when the members of UFCW Local Union Representative know immediately! their support with their union sisters and 1167 demonstrate the full strength of Remember, only your union repre - brothers at Rite Aid. their unified spirit. sents your interests and no one else’s. For the real story, trust only the infor - Thank you! You are this union and you Complete your questionnaires are the reason for its success. mation provided by your Union Repre - In preparation for these negotiations, sentative and/or our official messages Supermarket negotiations ahead! Local 1167 has sent questionnaires to delivered via text message, social media, This is no time for rest, because the members who work in the supermarkets, our website (ufcw1167.org), flyers and same spirit of solidarity will be crucial asking them what they would like to see the Desert Edge magazine. yet again as we prepare for contract ne - in their next contract. Our members at Albertsons, Ralphs, gotiations with the major food employers This step is important because a labor Stater Bros. and Vons stood strong with next year. contract is a complicated document that their sisters and brothers at Rite Aid, and There is no reason to think these ne - covers every aspect of your employment, I know they will stand strong in our up - gotiations will be easy, either. Nothing from the wages you earn to the sick days coming negotiations as you have all done worth fighting for is easy, but as Thomas and vacations you take. It determines the before. Paine wrote during the darkest hour of extent of your health benefits, the amount You are the Union, and a Union is a is the American Revolution, “the harder the invested in your retirement fund and the a powerful thing when we stick together! Winter 2018 3 What’s Happening IN MEMORIAM Vons. Freddy Martinez worked for 31 years for Gloria Adame, a retired general merchandise clerk formerly employed by Stater Bros. Markets, died on Oct. Albertsons. Maria Swager worked 31 years for 18, 2018 at the age of 68. She had been a continuous Vons. Carol Parker worked 30 years for member since January 1992. Just Married Albertsons and Safeway. Terri Garber worked Gary Byrum, a retired food clerk formerly employed 30 years for Albertsons and Lucky. Cathy Maine by Safeway and Vons, died on May 4, 2018 at the age worked 30 years for Albertsons and Lucky. of 76. He had been a member since September 1974. Ashley Anderson, Albertsons, married Scott Shelley Lopez worked 28 years for Stater Bros. Munson on July 2 at the Riverside Court House. Robert Craig, a retired drug clerk formerly employed Michele McKinney worked 28 years for by Thrifty and Rite Aid, died on Sept. 2, 2018 at the age Albertsons. William Hudson worked 26 years of 99. He had been a member since August 1996. for Albertsons. John Espinosa worked 25 years Ronald Drinnin, a retired meat cutter formerly em - for Stater Bros. Elizabeth White worked 25 ployed by Stater Bros. Markets, died on Aug. 25, 2018 years for Albertsons, Mega Foods and Super at the age of 80. He had been a continuous member Just Retired since June 1981. Saver. Debbra Covert worked 20 years for Food 4 Less. Karen Walters worked 18 years for Henry Eickhoff, a retired meat cutter formerly em - ployed by Albertsons, died on June 24, 2018 at the age Wayne Baughman worked 51 years for Stater Vons and Stater Bros. Concepcion Chavez of 83. He had been a member since April 1956. worked 18 years for Ralphs. Diane Meehan Bros. Stephen Brock worked 49 years for Stater Cynthia Ficarotta, an affiliated member formerly em - Bros. Louis West worked 47 years for Ralphs. worked 14 years for Stater Bros. Steve Ramirez ployed by Stater Bros. Markets, died on Oct. 5, 2018 Robert Dalton worked 47 years for Alpha Beta worked 8 years for Ralphs.