[lbo-talk] Boycotting the unorganized?

John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 19 10:12:42 PST 2005


Michael Pollak:


> 3 days after they opened, the United Food and Commercial
> Workers turned up outside picketing.

Michael,

Why not just call the union and ask what they're up to? From your story, it looks like the picketed store is probably an intransigent anti-union local chain, but the UFCW has some presence and density at other stores. It's perfectly reasonable of them to request that people shop at union stores.

But I don't see how this should be a "dilemma" for you even if you don't know all the details. It's not as if this is some racist building-trades union trying to keep out blacks.

Picketlines are not that complicated. When a union puts one up and asks you not to cross it, you don't cross. Period.

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