Only weeks after the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) rejoined the AFL-CIO, the two unions found themselves at odds with each other over the AFL-CIO’s recent endorsement of WinCo, a non-unionized grocery store chain, according to the blog Labor Pains.
The AFL-CIO originally endorsed WinCo as a better business model compared to Walmart due to WinCo's "higher wages and benefits."
However, the AFL-CIO's endorsement did not mention that WinCo’s employees were not members of any food worker’s union, such as UFCW.
Notes Labor Pains:
UFCW has repeatedly failed in attempts to organize WinCo’s 100 grocery stores, going to so far as to impede store openings through frivolous lawsuits over food expiration dates. Even though employees are already stockholders in the business, the UFCW accuses the company’s employees’ compensation packages constituted a "union in name only."
According to Labor Pains, the AFL-CIO recently removed its article endorsing WinCo.
