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Ownership
As an organization which represents members, FAIR should operate as any other labor union. The leadership should look like a True Representation of those who belong to it—Local and International staff from a variety of regions and backgrounds.

If you were to go to the FAIR website today, what you would find is a video of Jacques Loveall , president of UFCW Local 8 Golden State on the front page along with John Heise’s latest blog (who is also an officer in Local 8 GS). If you look even closer you will find several other Local 8 GS representatives as part of the Executive Board. The current “Slate” proposed by the incumbents would add even more positions.

At what point do we as members stop allowing a single group or individual to control our future? As Business Reps and Organizers in the Labor Movement we would never accept this from one of the employers. Isn’t it time to hold ourselves to the same standards we hold the companies of the workers we organize and represent?

Accountability

The leadership of FAIR must be held accountable for the language in contracts bargained throughout the country. For example, Local 1036’s staff in Southern California were not given an opportunity to vote on a contract because of language which would prevent FAIR from interfering in a merger between locals, while leadership then allowed similar language to be put in a contract in Seattle. The ultimate result was that the staff of 1036 ended up merged into a larger local without a contract and immediately lost their union status, decreasing our power and membership as a whole, while in no way upholding the basic principals of union representation. The real reason for what happened in Southern California had more to do with the interests of UFCW Local 8 GS because they wanted a bigger piece in the merger and had nothing to do with any of us as members. In fact we lost members in the end.

Nominations shall require the signatures of two persent, rounded down to the nearest whole number....(emphasis mine)

So Scott..... what is the official results for the 2011 UFCW Local 8 Nomination / Election of Officers??

Did Local 8's Leadership announce anything??

I'm usually the last one they want to get any Local 8 info.