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PAGE 8 | December 15, 2017 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS OPEN FORUM Cash & Carry: 100% union with the Teamsters To the Editor: As a 41-year Teamsters Local 206 member who started with United Grocers, now Supervalu, I was surprised and distressed to find in your Nov. 12, 2017 edi- tion, a story regarding the union drive at New Seasons, in a five column banner listing the ‘Unionized Grocery Stores’ and the ‘Non-Union Competition,’ (both in nice big orange letters), a grievous error. Teamsters-rep- resented Cash & Carry Stores were listed as non-union. Checking back with some re- tired bothers, the Cash & Carry Stores were union in the early 1950s, no doubt about it. They still had union contracts when I started in the 1970s, and I’ve been on every contract commit- tee for Cash & Carry since 1987. Cash & Carry has a statewide agreement with 20 union stores. Cash & Carry has the industry leading contract, period. Every- one in the store except the store manager is a Teamster. There is no retail grocery — union or nonunion — in the state who touches our wages, pension, health and welfare, guaranteed workweeks, seniority bidding, vacation schedules, etc. No sys- tem runs any better or with less man hours versus volume, not on either list. We are proud to represent these Teamster broth- ers and sisters and the important work they do. Cash & Carry stores are open to everyone. You won’t find beer or a pharmacy, but you will find fresh meat, dairy, produce, dry grocery, frozen food, and an array of kitchen and cleaning necessities as well. It is an out- standing shopping experience with a seasoned crew at every location. Good contracts tend to be a special type of glue that en- courages workers to commit to a career. Union runs deep in this company. Many in upper man- agement came up through the rank and file, even a company president, and for those man- agers who vested, at retirement there was and is a Teamster pen- sion waiting for them too. Attached you will find each Cash & Carry facility address. Shop union, shop local, shop Cash & Carry. Stan White Secretary Treasurer Teamsters Local 206 CASH & CARRY IS A UNION GROCER TOO! Portland 731 SE Stephens St. 910 N. Hayden Meadows Drive 1825 NW 19th Ave. Clackamas 15700 S.E. 82nd Drive Gresham 2521 NW Division St. Tigard 11745 SW Pacific Hwy. Aloha 3950 SW 170th Ave. at TV Hwy Salem 1410 Barnes Ave., SE 1355 Salem Ind. Drive Kelso, Washington 2303 Talley Way Eugene 4214 W. Fifth Ave. Springfield 3559 Gateway St. Coos Bay 751 S. 2nd Newport 156 NE 7th Warrenton 595 SE Alternate Hwy 101, Bend 1500 NE Third St. Medford 2033 Cardinal Ave. Klamath Falls 2805 Maywood Drive, The Dalles 1820 W. 2nd Pendleton 4228 Westgate Seated from left to right: 1st Vice President Everice Moro; 2nd Vice President Ed Barnes; President Jeff Anderson; Executive Secretary-Treasurer Bob Tackett. Standing from left to right: Board members Willy Myers, Will Lukens, Rose Etta Venetucci, Sam Gillispie, Dave Tully, Sandy Gillis, Terry Lans- ing, Ellen Ino, Mike Pucik, and Scott Zadow. Not pictured is Mike Bridges. F ROM T HE O FFICERS AND E XECUTIVE B OARD OF THE N ORTHWEST O REGON L ABOR C OUNCIL
