SECRETARY-TREASURER'S REPORT

Don't Let Rumors and Propaganda Distract And Divide Us!

With supermarket contract negotiations under way, the usual propaganda is making the rounds in the stores. This is when some employers all of a sudden develop a newfound sense of concern for you as a worker. Don't be fooled! There are some who want our members to be confused and divided when it is time to bargain for a new contract. An unfocused work force with weak ties to its Union is less able to resist give-backs and take-aways. Fortunately, our members don't fit that profile. We are strong and united.

    We won't be fooled by deceptions

and divisive rhetoric. But that doesn't mean they won't try.

         Get the Facts

Thanks to our Union's state-of-theart methods of communications,

UFCW members in Northern

California and across the country are better informed and more involved in negotiations than ever before.

    Certain entities might try to chip away at our unity with fliers, newsletters, notices attached to your paycheck and other propaganda.

    During this time, you might also start

hearing more rumors than usual. This is by design. Gossip is a useful tool in turning workers against each other and making them doubt the work of their Union.

    In these negotiations, our goal is to

win the best possible wages, benefits, holidays, vacations and working conditions for all of our supermarket members.

    We will do all we can, but we also need you to be our eyes and ears in the stores. Let us know what is going on. If you hear any rumors or encounter anything from the employer

that doesn't sound right, contact your

Steward or District Union Representative so your Union can set the record straight.

For accurate and current information, you can look to your Union bulletin board, the Voice of Action and our website,

http://www.ufcw8.org/. Also, you will be receiving telephone updates on the negotiations from President Loveall.

We can achieve our objectives

when we stand united and stay

focused on our goals.

Solidarity Works!

Court Gives Albertsons Victory in  Lucky  Fight

Afederal court has ruled in favor of Albertsons in its two-year-old battle with Grocery Outlet Inc. over use of the Lucky name.

    On Sept. 11, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed an earlier injunction by a U.S. District Court judge who sided with Albertsons in the dispute.

    Albertsons Inc. of Boise, Idaho,

had dropped the Lucky name after acquiring the Lucky grocery chain in 1998. In 2005, Grocery Outlet Inc., a non-Union discount chain, briefly attached the Lucky logo to its store in Rocklin.   

 Officials at Grocery Outlet said it could use the Lucky brand because it had been abandoned by Albertsons.

In February of this year, 130 Abertsons stores in Northern California were acquired by Save Mart Supermarkets, a Union grocery chain based in Modesto.

Save Mart has since decided to re-brand 72 of them as Lucky stores by October.

UFCW 8 picketed the Rocklin store when it carried the Lucky banner, asserting that  customers were being deceived into thinking it was a Union store.

Official publication of UFCW 8-Golden State Jacques Loveall, President