Summer 2019 President’s Report: Step up Myemobeurs rha vge a acrumcial reole ! in negotiating a fair contract Contents July 4 President’s Report In Memoriam Union Independence Day Negotiations update Former 1167 President offices 3 9 Bill Brooks September 2 closed Labor Day What’s Happening Retirements, marriages, births 4 Labor History Series Local 439’s Paul Enriquez Inland Empire CLC Recognized 10 Fighting for labor friendly agenda Next Quarterly 5 Union Reps Report Membership Meetings: Rosie’s Corner 13 Don’t steal from employers 6 Women reorganize labor Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 Steward Profile Members at Work Kari Perkins Vons and Albertsons Meetings start at 7 p.m. 7 14 New Member meetings are also held Member in Negotiations monthly at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at: Deli Clerk Roxie Coulson ON THE COVER: 8 Jeannette Rubalcaba UFCW Local 1167 Auditorium Stater Bros. 200 855 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 Local 1167, United UFCW Local 1167? Has one of your Food and Commercial Workers International Union If you have problems Health Management Center co-workers recently joined our union? Serving San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial with : Alcohol, drugs, any time, day or night, Get up to a $65 credit toward your Counties, California. children & adolescents, 24 hours a day, initiation fee when you attend a Headquarters: family, emotional issues, seven days a week. New Member Orientation Meeting 855 W. San Bernardino Ave. gambling, marriage and/or All calls are confidential. Bloomington, CA 92316 within six months of your hire date. financial/legal. Food Division Mailing address: Eligible active or retired call (800) 461-9179 Call (909) 877-5000 for dates, P.O. Box 1167 locations and answers to any questions. Bloomington, CA 92316 members can call the toll- Drug Division 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! Business telephone: 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 (909) 877-5000 AND PAYABLE. IF YOUR DUES ARE NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY SUS - Toll-free telephone: PEND YOURSELF. (800) 698-UFCW With dues checkoff, all future dues can be deducted automatically from your pay check. If you do not have an authorization Food and Meat Division insurance: form, call the local and one will be sent to you immediately. (909) 877-1110 Nonpayment or payment of the incorrect amount will automatically suspend you — a costly and inconvenient mistake. Although Drug & General Sales Division insurance: not required, the local, as a courtesy, normally sends billing notices by first-class mail to those not on dues checkoff. It is the (909) 877-2331 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. Telephone hours: Avoid suspension. Authorize dues checkoff today! 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 WSe atll ehavep a r oule inp ne gyotiaotingu a frair cgontaractm for sueper! market workers f you work in a supermarket and part to ensure our success by stepping you’re anything like your fellow up your game as a union activist. 1167 members, you are concerned This goes beyond your union mem - about the outcome of our current bership, as important as that is. For ex - negotiations with the major grocery ample, when our retail food members Ichains. After all, it’s your wages, bene - are in difficult negotiations, our mem - fits and working conditions that are on bers at the drug stores can be trusted to the table. turn out for rallies and handbilling ac - I can honestly tell you that your tivities in support of their union sisters union negotiating team, which includes and brothers. And when our retail drug members who work in the stores, takes members need assistance, they can rely this responsibility very seriously. Our on their fellow members at the grocery minds and hearts are focused on it in stores to do the same as was evident every waking moment. Some of us are during our last Rite Aid negotiations. even dreaming about it! This made a clear difference at the bar - While we use every strategy avail - gaining table and Rite Aid members able to win the best possible terms for were able to get a good contract because your next contract, we continue to rely we all showed up at their activities. on you to support our efforts. We need JOE DUFFLE Here are some other ways you can you to send a clear message to manage - President step forward to make your union ment of your rock-solid solidarity. stronger: Anything less than that will be inter - • Wear your union buttons and badges preted as a sign of division and weak - e need all elements on the job. This speaks volumes about ness, which will encourage the W your pride in union membership. companies to try to wear us down with of our union working • Say positive things about your union unreasonable demands. to co-workers and management. This This holds true for all of us in together for a helps help turn away the negativity that Local 1167. Whether you work in a can affect our ability to negotiate a con - grocery store, a drug store, a packing single purpose. tract on your behalf. It also lets the cor - plant, a distribution center, a doctor’s porate higher-ups that your union is office, a health facility or one of the ums, pensions, life insurance, death strong and means business. many other kinds of worksites we rep - benefits and even access to discounts • Avoid spreading rumors. Always get resent, you have a crucial role to play in because you are a UFCW member. the facts from your Union Reps, your moving us all forward together. It all adds up to a better quality of life steward and other union sources, in - The contracts we negotiate with em - for your family and for others in your cluding the Desert Edge , our website ployers set the highest standards in the community. and our social media outlets. industries we serve. They mean better To achieve these things and more, we • Speak up for your union online. wages and working conditions for you need all elements of our union working Many people don’t realize what it and your co-workers. They also provide together for a single purpose. We’re all means to be part of a union. Saying sick pay, health care with low premi - in this together, and you can do your Continued on page 8 Summer 2019 3 Charity Golf Tournament raises $70,000 for LLS and scholarships he UFCW Locals 1167 between his treatments be - and 1428 Charity Golf cause his love of dentistry Tournament held May 7 could not keep him away featured a moving trib - from treating his patients,” ute to a founding supporter of his wife, Alicia Sales, recalled Tthe annual event, which bene - at this year’s event at the fits the Leukemia and Lym - Sierra Lakes Golf Club in Alicia Sales phoma Society (LLS). Fontana. “None of us knew Dr. Philip Sales, a dentist how he did it, but he perse - affiliated with the Ponderosa vered. Dental Group in Rancho Cu - “On June 13, 2018, my camonga, had been a benefac - beloved husband got his tor of the tournament since it wings,” she continued. “He began 17 years ago. His rela - will be forever remembered tionship with the LLS took an for his smile that would light unfortunate turn in 2016, up any room. He will be for - when he was diagnosed with ever missed by his family, Matt Russow, LLS non-Hodgkins lymphoma. friends and patients, who “Philip managed to work loved him so much.” What’s Happening F&D, Albertsons, Lucky’s, and Alpha Beta for 43 years. John Sato worked for Albertsons, Just Married Lucky’s, and Fed-Mart for 42 years. Kath - Just Born leen Lopez worked for Ralphs, Hughes, and Market Basket for 38 years. Paula Stephanie Hillis , Stater Bros, was married Arredondo-Langford worked for Stater Jayme Miller , Vons, has a new baby boy. to Stephen on 8/18/18 at the Queen Mary in Bros. for 38 years. Sylvia Calles worked for Mavery Allen-Miller, born 4/25/19, weighed 10 Long Beach, Calif.. Iliana & Robert Lath - Stater Bros. for 36 years. Cynthia Laird lb. 11.5 oz. and measured 21¾ inches. “10 rum , Ralphs, were married on 3/30/19. worked for Stater Bros. for 34 years. Jesus ½ years later, Baby #5 is here!” ... Roman Huerta worked for Vons and Safeway for 34 & Guillerma Ponce , Stater Bros., had a baby years. Dana Berg worked for Stater Bros. boy, Roman David Ponce, on 2/23/19. 7 lb. 8 for 31 years. Jami Baldwin worked for Al - oz., 20½ inches, “Our Bundle of Joy”. ... Tu Just Retired bertsons for 30 years. Luis Garcia worked Anu Cap Pham , Rite Aid, had a baby boy, for Albertsons and Lucky’s for 30 years.