UFCW Weekender 

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

• Business Leaders Back Employee Free Choice Act
  
  A group of over 1,000 business leaders sent Congress and Wall Street a message this week: "When America's workers do well, our economy prospers, and companies across the nation--large and small--benefit."
   

• The Supermarket Cash Register as Muse
  
  Cashiers from Germany to Kansas are writing about their experiences behind the check-out line. And they're getting published! "People behave as if they are in their own living room," Carmela Narcisi, author of 99 Faces in One Day, "Outsiders can't imagine what we cashiers have to go through sometimes."

• UFCW Celebrates Gay Pride Month
  
  In 1970's San Francisco, the Teamsters found an ally in their boycott against Coors in gay activists Harvey Milk, but only if the Teamsters hired on gay drivers. Since then the Labor movement and the GLTB Rights movement have found common ground on issues like non-discrimination protections, workers' rights, and benefits for domestic partners.

• MSNBC's Morning Schmoes 
  
  On Wednesday morning's daily attempt by MSNBC to be Fox News co-hosts Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, and Mika Brzezinski, as well as New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, couldn't think of any successful unionized companies. Successful unionized companies, oh, like NBC...
   

 ACTION OF THE WEEK:

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