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UFCW Local 455 - Working Together, For Our Members and Our Community
 UFCW ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA
Along with UFCW International President Joe Hansen, I'm extremely proud and honored to announce UFCW Local 455 whole-heartedly endorses Senator Barack Obama for President.
William H. Hopkins, President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 14, 2008
Statement by Joe Hansen, President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Washington — For the 1.3 million members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), the 2008 Presidential election is about restoring the American dream for America’s workers. UFCW members are energized to seize this opportunity to change America and restore the American Dream for workers and their families.
The UFCW has a powerful presence and a strong organization in key primary states such as Wisconsin, Hawaii, Texas and Ohio. We are the largest union of young workers with more than forty percent of our members under the age of thirty. Senator Obama’s message of changing hope into reality has inspired our members, particularly our young members, across the country.
We have the utmost respect for Senator Clinton and her tireless efforts on behalf of working people. And while both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a vision to change America, we believe that Senator Obama is the best candidate to build a movement to unite our country that will deliver the type of change that is needed – for good jobs, affordable health care, retirement security and worker safety.
Our country requires a change—change that restores America to a place of opportunity and security, where hard work is respected and those who do it are protected.
Our country requires change that brings the security working people require to improve their lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren.
Senator Obama understands the needs of working people. As a community organizer, he understands that America must restore the balance between working America and corporate America. He will fight to level the playing field on behalf of workers across our country. He will fight to regain the rights and protections workers have lost after too many years of the Bush Administration.
UFCW will be mobilizing, organizing and energizing our members, their friends and families to make Senator Obama not just the Democratic nominee, but the next President of the United States.
We are talking about the dreams of meatpackers and food processors working long hours to ensure that the dreams of their sons and daughters for college and a better life become a reality. We are talking about giving life to the dreams of cashiers and clerks in retail and grocery stores. That is what this election is about. It is about the dreams of hard working people across this country. Men and women who deserve to have their elected officials work as hard as they do.
It is Senator Obama who is best positioned, and who has the best policies, to make these dreams a reality. Senator Obama is the candidate of the American dream.
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Mark Your Calendars
Updated
On: Aug 21, 2008 (11:45:00)
Important Dates - 2008 Election
The following is a list of important election-related dates and deadlines:
Louisiana
| Election 2008 - November 4, 2008 |
| Louisiana Voter Registration Deadline - October 6, 2008 |
| Early Voting in Person Begins - October 21, 2008 |
| Early Voting in Person Ends - October 28, 2008 |
| Mailed Application for an Absentee Ballot Due - October 31, 2008 |
| Completed Absentee Ballot Due - November 3, 2008 |
Texas
| Election 2008 - November 4, 2008 |
| Texas Voter Registration Deadline - October 6, 2008 |
| Early Voting in Person Begins - October 20, 2008 |
| Early Voting in Person Ends - October 31, 2008 |
| Mailed Application for an Absentee Ballot Due - October 28, 2008 |
| Completed Absentee Ballot Due - November 4, 2008 |
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On: Aug 21, 2008 (11:42:00)
| It Doesn't Cost - It Pay's To Belong |
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YOUR UNION WORKING HARD FOR YOU
Totals for Grievances Through AUGUST, 2008
Grievances Pending 146
Grievances Resolved - 2008 455
Employees Reinstated - 2008 49
Total (Back pay) - 2008 $ 203,268.18
TOTAL RETRO PAY & BENEFITS - 2007 $364,531.61
Grievances Resolved - 2007 468
Employees Reinstated - 2007 70
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Fiesta Organizing Blitz
Five other major labor organizations, along with two civil rights organizations — Amnesty International and ACORM — joined UFCW Local 455’s drive to bring unionism to employees of Fiesta Supermarkets. Read More
Walmart Blitz
Safety — that is, providing protection for employees and customers — has always been a priority of UFCW Local 455. Read More
Immigration Update
Too many workers confuse “illegal” with “immigrants”, which tends to dampen their support for basic rights owed to all workers — including our newest Americans. Read More
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Kroger Stewards Conference 2006
Updated
On: Feb 15, 2008 (16:21:00)
Approximately two hundred Kroger Stewards from Local 455’s jurisdiction in Texas and Louisiana enthusiastically participated in a two-day seminar held at the Houston Fireman’s Conference Center in Houston, TX on August 16 – 17, 2006 Read More...
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