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Local 876 expects Spartan Foods to respect the NLRB decision and the legal
right of workers to unionize , by entering contract negotiations with Local 876
and bargaining in good faith with the union to reach an agreement on a first
contract for the workers at Glen's Market in Oscoda.
"This is a shameful act of naked aggression against the human rights of
workers who make their living under the most dire circumstances," he said. Gomez accused Grupo Mexico
of criminal homicide and the government of negligence and called for an
investigation and removal of the Minister of Labor.

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Hoffa, President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Joseph Hansen, President, United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Bruce Raynor, President UNITE-HERE
Andrew Stern, President, Service Employees International Union

Fifty top leaders of the five unions

When: Wednesday, June 15, 12:30 p.
The USW said that Gomez's troubles began following the mine disaster at
Pasta de Concha, which is owned by Grupo Mexico.

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Huron Rd.4 million members."
The USW is a partner in a strategic alliance with Los Mineros, with the
commitment to increase communication, collaboration and coordination across
our national border in order to retain and build strength that provides both
unions with effective countervailing force to the power of global capital and
multinational corporations.
AFL-CIO Vice President Linda Chavez Thompson and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO
President Bill George head the list of prominent labor leaders who are
addressing the demonstration.

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"Their employer used nearly every trick in the book to block
their efforts to achieve a voice on the job, but the workers remained strong
and united.
"When the government removed their leader, democracy was trampled.

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The
workers showed strong support for the union by signing union authorization
cards allowing UFCW Local 876 to petition the NLRB to conduct a secret ballot
union representation election. The UFCW is one of the
three largest unions in the Michigan AFL -CIO.

Contact: Gerald Fernandez 412-562-2611

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In the fall of 2001, the workers at Glen's Market in Oscoda contacted the
UFCW Local 876 looking for assistance in forming a union at their store.

Labor organizations offer many scholarships and opportunities for higher education to members and their families.

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"We are calling on the government of Vicente Fox to restore the
democratically elected leader of The National Union of Mine and Metallurgical
Workers of the Mexican Republic, the union known as 'Los Mineros' by its
250,000 members," USW Secretary-Treasurer Jim English told the crowd.

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In March
2002, the NLRB ruled the employer's objections lacked merit, and ordered the
election results certified. "The promise of free
trade is to lift all boats.

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MADISON HEIGHTS , Mich. Due to a dispute over
voter eligibility, the ballots were impounded.

Press Conference Wednesday With Leaders of Five Major Unions

Steelworkers Demand that Vicente Fox's Government Restore Democratically Elected Mexican Mineworker Union Leader Napoleon Gomez to Office

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"This has been a long battle for the workers at Glen's in Oscoda, and the
board's ruling is a great win for them," Victoria Collins , Local 876's
president, said.C. We must challenge the Mexican government's role in
suppressing workers upward mobility.
Shortly after, he was removed as union leader by the Labor Minister and
replaced by an individual who is not a union member, and Gomez's removal also
violates Mexican Labor Law and international labor conventions.

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Where: Laborers' International Headquarters
905 16th Street, NW, 6th floor

Telephone Call-in: 1-877-826-8983
Participant code: 599401

The
employers fear Gomez and don't want any challenges to their endless supply of
cheap labor in Mexico.

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The UFCW International is the
largest private sector union in the country, with over 1.
The five unions represent 5 million workers .m.

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25 the National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) certified the vote, ruling the employer's objections to the
election lacked merit.

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The election was conducted on January 18, 2002. Spartan Foods appealed this decision, sending the
case to the NLRB office in Washington, D., where a ruling took nearly three
years. Presidents of Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers', SEIU
to Announce Plans for Future of Labor Movement

WASHINGTON, The leaders of five of the largest
unions in the AFL-CIO -- Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers', and SEIU --
will hold a press conference Wednesday, June 15, at 12:30 PM at the Laborers'
International Union of North America headquarters to announce the creation of
a new multi-union organization to address the urgent need for a large-scale,
coordinated effort to rebuild the American labor movement in the face of
globalization.

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Federal Government Rules: Glen's Market Oscoda Workers' Vote for Union Representation Stands Reports UFCW Local 876

"The workers at the Oscoda store weren't the only ones eagerly awaiting
this decision," Mark Charrette, Local 876's organizing director, said.
Glen's operates 34 markets in mid-Michigan. They have recently partnered
on a platform that would reform the AFL -CIO and bring the labor movement into
the 21st Century.
"Mexico is our NAFTA trading partner ," English said.

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This decision has given them hope that union representation is attainable.

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The results of the NLRB-
ordered February 19, 2002 ballot count were 28 votes in favor of union
representation and 20 votes against union representation, with eight
challenged ballots.

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, Over three years after
Glen's Market Oscoda workers voted for representation with the United Food and
Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 876, on Feb. We want to see our Mexican brother and sister workers
lift themselves up and through hard work and through organizing
democratically-run labor unions, get a bigger piece of the economic pie that
they are entitled to.

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After Local 876 agreed with the company's challenge of
two ballots, the union asked the NLRB to certify the election results because
the remaining six challenged ballots would not change the vote in favor of
union representation.
Spartan Foods, who owns and operates Glen's Market, filed objections with
the NLRB in an effort to block the certification of the election.
"Employees at several other Glen's Markets were interested in joining the
Oscoda workers in obtaining union representation, but put their unionizing
efforts on hold until they saw how things worked out for the Oscoda group.

Press Conference:

Who: Terence O'Sullivan, President, Laborers' International Union of
North America
James P. Napoleon
Gomez is a formidable advocate for the rights of workers in Mexico.

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The press conference will follow a meeting of 50 of the top leaders of the
five unions who will adopt a Constitution and Bylaws for the new organization
and develop coordinated organizing and growth plans.

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The Oscoda store is located
at 5463 N.

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UFCW Local 876 represents over 22,000 workers in eastern and northern
Michigan who work for Kroger, Farmer Jack, Rite Aid, and at numerous other
commercial worksites including meat packing plants. The platform calls for dramatic new emphasis on organizing
non-union workers and for restructuring federation and affiliate activities to
respond to the profound changes in the American economy. PHILADELPHIA, The United Steelworkers (USW) union
is leading a march of union members and supporters today from the Liberty Bell
to the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia in a show of outrage over what the
USW sees as the illegal removal of the Mexican Mineworker Union leader
Napoleon Gomez by the Mexican government following Gomez's call for an
investigation of the deaths of 65 mineworkers in a tragic accident. Instead , we find ourselves on a treadmill in a
race to the bottom.

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