UFCW Weekender 

Following is a brief roundup of important articles and information for your weekend reading:

• Mobilize with us in April!
  
  Help win quality, affordable health care for all in 2009 by mobilizing this month. Attend an event in your area with your Members of Congress to show that we need health care reform and we need it now.

• The battle at Walmart begins
  
  "The United Food and Commercial Workers union is ramping up organizing at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after a five-year lull, dovetailing with its efforts to win support in Congress for a bill to make union organizing easier," according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. This DailyKos entry reponds to the Wall Street Journal article.

• UFCW Local 1500 Seeks Enforcement of State W.A.R.N. Act
   

  UFCW Local 1500 is taking an aggressive response to A&P Supermarkets' refusal to comply with the New York State W.A.R.N. act which requires employers to pay workers wages for 90 days after announcing the closing of a facility.

• CHANGE TO WIN AND AFL-CIO UNVEIL UNIFIED IMMIGRATION REFORM FRAMEWORK  
  
  Joseph T. Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and chair of the Change to Win Immigration Task Force, and John Sweeney, International President of the AFL-CIO, unveiled a unified framework for comprehensive immigration reform legislation.