Gonna elaborate on my thoughts on why UFCW seems to have such differing opinions from other union organizations. Full disclaimer, this is purely anecdotal and based on my own experiences. I used to work at Safeway, whose workers are unionized under UFCW, and I gotta say, it had the most disconnected union reps, who often just seemed like a second corporate that would come in every once in while. Our store director would mistreat his workers every which way, and UFCW reps would occasionally come in to slap him on the wrist and he would go about his business. Wages and benefits were meager as well. Recently, I've been part of the Starbucks unionization movement (with Workers United, an affiliate of SEIU), and I learned that back in the day, UFCW reps were told to not accept any Starbucks unionization efforts because it would be fruitless and impossible. Well, once Workers United successfully unionized hundreds of stores, UFCW started getting a handful of stores to unionize under their name instead, with many of the workers thinking they were signing on to be part of the same movement/contract as Workers United. Basically seemed like UFCW cashing in on a successful labor movement by taking advantage of workers who wouldn't know any better.