https://labornotes.org/2024/12/ufcw-locals-block-kroger-albertsons-mega-merger UFCW Locals Block Kroger-Albertsons Mega-Merger By Lisa Xu/Labor Notes/December 17, 2024 [Snip] The Stop the Merger campaign thus became an extension of the locals’ determination to match up organized worker power against ever-consolidating corporate power. The coalition eventually grew to include unions representing 100,000 Kroger and Albertsons employees across 14 states and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of allies outside of labor also joined. The core UFCW locals pooled resources for lawyers,economists, and capital strategy researchers to help argue the legal case (working closely with the FTC to craft the complaint and sharpen the labor market analysis), as well as for organizing and communications for a public campaign. The campaign held frequent, well-attended press conferences and town halls for members throughout 2023 and 2024, helping to drive the news cycle and a groundswell of opposition to the merger. Inside the UFCW, these locals succeeded in pressuring the international union into publicly opposing the merger, leading to a statement https://www.ew4d.org/about issued by delegates at its International Convention in May 2023. However, the UFCW has not since made any substantive efforts to oppose the merger, nor made any contribution to the Stop the Merger campaign, which has been funded entirely by local unions. Todd Crosby, who helped coordinate the Stop the Merger campaign, called it “the closest thing the UFCW has” to the big public contract fights we’ve seen in the Teamsters and the Auto Workers. “This was a national crisis,” said Crosby, a former president of UFCW Local 21 (now Local 3000), “and these locals have stepped up and won where there was a vacuum of leadership.” [Snip]
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