UFCW Weekender 

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

• Corporations Now Widely Using Wal-Mart Tactics, New Report on Unionbusting Finds
  
  A definitive new look at the scope of employer anti-union campaigns by a noted Cornell University labor scholar finds that corporations have ramped up a wide-range of tactics designed to punish and intimidate workers for seeking to form a union.
   

• Blue Double Cross
  
  Less than two weeks have passed since much of the medical-industrial complex made a big show of working with President Obama on health care reform -- and the double-crossing is already well under way. 

• Health care coalition asks Justice Department Antitrust Division for comprehensive investigation into health insurance market
  
  A report released this week by Health Care for America Now reveals shocking levels of concentration in the private health insurance market in most states, spurring the grassroots health care coalition to issue a request to the Justice Department to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the state of the private health insurance market.

• Local 5, Berkeley Bowl Announce Win-Win Agreement 
  
  UFCW Local 5 and local Berkeley, Calif., supermarket Berkeley Bowl recently announced the company's agreement to use card check recognition, a process that recognizes union representation when a majority of workers sign union cards.
   

ACTION OF THE WEEK:

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