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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.
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