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UFCW ... Pledge This!!!

As UFCW Southern California retail negotiations drag on, with not much in the way of bigger is better union solidarity, former UFCW Local 839 President John Briley, responds in kind to UFCW's recent pledge mania.

Specifically: UFCW Pledge This!!!

UFCW: Here we go again?

A jaw-dropping report which sheds light on what appears to be (another) party time for UFCW and it's retail partners, and back to the future for UFCW's Southern California retail members.

Read it here!

Haiti Then and Now

By John Reimann

Already, their priorities are being revealed; the focus is to airlift Americans out and troops in, rather than to bring in food, water and medical supplies. As Jarry Emmanuel of the World Food Program commented on the US priorities at the airport, Their priorities are to secure the country. Ours are to feed. In the coming days, it will be interesting to see how US forces coordinate with the aid efforts of Venezuela and Cuba. Already, the Heritage Fund, a major right-wing US think tank, has called for one objective in Haiti to be to counter influence of those two countries in Haiti.

(also see The Daily Censored)

CCWIPP Trustees "Totally Failed" Judge Rules

Trustees of the Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension plan were convicted today of violating the Pension Benefits Act of Ontario. Multiple charges were laid against the trustees in 2006 after an investigation by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario found numerous apparent breaches of pension laws.

The judgment: R. v Christophe et al

CCWIPP Trustees' Bahamas Resort Deal in the Toilet

More bad news for the trustees of the troubled Canadian Commercial Workers Industry Pension plan. Since 2005, when the Financial Services Commission of Ontario started breathing down their necks about a $50 million investment in a mothballed Bahamas resort, the trustees have been working hard to offload the South Ocean Golf and Beach Resort - or at least, trying to make it look that way.