So I see I’m not the only one screwed by the UFCW. Worked in a Grocery store during college. The only thing the union was good at was protecting the most useless people form getting fired.
Paid dues ($7 something a week) and all I got was a quarterly magazine, which they still send me (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2949239/posts). Also I got the pleasure of having Union reps show up and give me stickers to tell me how great the union is and all the great things it does. They never said what they were.
Once during a contract negation one rep showed up and stared to tell me how eeevil the company was, making money, etc, and gave me a sticker. I asked the rep how he made his six figure salary. That seemed to touch a nerve as he threw a roll of stickers on the floor and walked off.
“I asked the rep how he made his six figure salary. That seemed to touch a nerve as he threw a roll of stickers on the floor and walked off.”
I made it a point every time a union rep tried to talk to me and hand me BS pamphlets was “if it’s good for the working man, why are you making more than the rest of us?”. When I had a grievance, they just ignored me so I made their lives a living hell.
I had better jobs to pay off my tuition fee that did not require forking over my hard-earned dough to these scum. Everything from driver for an escort service to playing bass for a death metal band, I did.