Food Unite

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - 7-10-2020
COVID-19 UPDATE HAZARD PAY QUESTION: Do our Company Owners and Company Executives truly recognize the importance of Supermarket Workers during this deadly Pandemic? The top three groups of essential workers during this Covid-19 nightmare have been classified as follows: 1.      Health Care and Public Health Workers 2.      Law Enforcement and Public Safety Workers such as Police, Fire & EMTs 3.      Grocery Store Workers Health Care and Public Health Workers are needed primarily when we are ill.  Law...
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - 7-2-2020
COVID-19 UPDATE : HAZARD PAY President Niccollai reported today that we have concluded the ads directed at our Supermarket customers run in major newspapers, concerning the wrongful reduction and/or termination of “hazard pay”. Our campaign for justice will now swing over to social media and will be directed at our Employers, again concerning the wrongful reduction of and/or termination of “hazard pay”. In addition, your Union is observing that many of our Employers are failing to abide by mandated safety practices and are exposing our membership to unsafe working conditions.  Union...
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AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2020
  COVID-19 UPDATE   HAZARD PAY   President Niccollai reported today that in addition to filing grievances against all our Employers regarding the reduction and or elimination of “hazard pay”, we have also commenced a social media campaign asking for the help of our supermarket customers.  Attached herewith is a message that will appear in several widely circulated newspapers and on social media.   As our message clearly states, we are not seeking a boycott but rather customer input in getting our Employers to do the right thing by continuing our “...