The union fatcats behind the Whole Foods boycott


	The union fatcats behind the Whole Foods boycott

n2sooners

8-24-2009 4:32 PM

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boycott, healthcare, politics, unions, whole foods

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8-28-2009 2:06 AM

davboz

More thugs. Thugs of a kind ....uh,..thug together? Thugs of a feather...? oh, you know what I mean.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e18fa964-500e-451d-80f7-40715752238d/7924E539-513F-49C3-8314-4B9550F00644/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/" style="font-size: 11px;">michellemalkin.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/"><P>Last week, I reprinted a boycott flyer sent to me by a <A href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/21/letter-from-a-whole-foods-worker/" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="15">Whole Foods employee</A> who asked readers to support the company, which has been targeted by leftists because CEO John Mackey opposes a government takeover of health care:</p> <P><IMG alt="" src="http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ufcw.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/">The union brass at the UFCW are living high on the hog. <A href="http://ow.ly/kSYN" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="16">Mitchell Blatt </A> shines some bright light:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/">The UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers), whose president earns $626,769 a year, has launched a campaign against Whole Foods, whose CEO earns $1 a year in salary.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/">Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s total compensation is $33,831, and he has implemented executive pay limits for all of his executives.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/">Mackey’s sin? He offers his employees good benefits, and UFCW wants them to unionize so that their union bosses can make more money.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/24/the-union-behind-the-whole-foods-boycott/">Go <A href="http://ow.ly/kSYN" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="17">read the whole thing</A> for the astounding salary breakdown of UFCW brass.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7924E539-513F-49C3-8314-4B9550F00644/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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