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...In a city known for its diversity and progressive politics, the rebrand probably needs no explanation, but it’s still the first thing locals whisper when you mention it....
...A replica greeted me at the local airport, and the original is in the museum....
...Kim Cordova, head of a local UFCW chapter in Greeley, Colorado, said any effort to protect companies would reduce the incentive to create a safe work environment....
...John Grant, president of UFCW Local 770, said too many store managers were preoccupied with sales and there were still too many customers in stores, especially in poorer communities....
...The company has had disagreements with the local union chapter over last week’s reopening of a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado....
...In Chicago, it has wooed these groups with the offer of $20m in local assistance over the next five years, as well as the prospect of jobs and local tax contributions from new stores....
...in 2007, at the peak of an anti-Walmart campaign by the UFCW grocery workers’ union....
...Local news reports said it had committed to pay a starting wage of $8.75 per hour – 50 cents above the state’s minimum wage....
...The suit, eventually defeated, was seen as the work not of concerned owl lovers but of an informal alliance between the UFCW grocery union and local supermarket businesses – both threatened by Tesco’s US...
...Walmart has long faced political resistance to its plans in the largest US cities, largely orchestrated by the UFCW grocery workers’ union and its political allies....
...Todd Conger, a local UFCW spokesman, said a majority of staff at a store in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, has requested recognition as a UFCW bargaining unit, with 70 per cent of the 19 staff at...
...The UFCW grocery workers union, for example, abandoned efforts to organise at Wal-Mart, the largest US private employer, in 2003....
...It includes a lawsuit against Tesco’s distribution centre and working with local activist groups....
...However, it is expected to open five of the stores in San Diego, in southern California, where local political opposition backed by the UFCW grocery workers’ union has slowed the expansion of its grocery...
...Provincial law allows union recognition without a ballot, leading to local union victories against both Wal-Mart and Cintas, a laundry services company....
...The event is also expected to draw protesters from the UFCW grocery workers union, which has sought to put pressure on Tesco to use unionised workers....
...trendy Lower East Side was led by supposedly pro-Wal-Mart protesters wearing its characteristic blue vests, chanting ironic slogans such as “No Way but Sam’s way” in an event organised by Bob Snead, a local...
...Smaller stores would also allow Wal-Mart to avoid the planning issues that have allowed opponents including the UFCW grocery workers union to slow its growth in California, Chicago and New York....
...The stoppage is being sought by the law firm representing a group called Health First, which says it represents local residents concerned about air quality....
...That has led to speculation that the lawsuits are linked to either local competitors or to the UFCW grocery workers union, which is seeking to persuade Tesco to run a unionised operation....
...That, he said, was a first step by the local branch of the UFCW, which was upset after Tesco shrugged off attempts to make contact this year....
...Grossfeld says this was just the first step by the UFCW, which claims Tesco has been less than polite to it....
...Lipsky is a lobbyist and a campaigner who works in New York City for the UFCW union, as well as for a range of other clients....
...The UFCW has subsequently been in the forefront of a drive to block Wal-Mart’s expansion into the area, financing local politicians who have engaged the retailer in “site fights”, struggles that have slowed...
...The UFCW’s Local 770 is campaigning aggressively against the expansion of Wal-Mart’s Supercenters in the Los Angeles area....
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