UFCW Launches Campaign Against PriceRite

MARK HAMSTRA

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The United Food and Commercial Workers union on Friday launched a campaign to unionize PriceRite, the discount banner owned by Elizabeth, N.J.-based Wakefern Food Corp., which also owns the ShopRite banner. The campaign, which kicked off with about 100 demonstrators at a PriceRite store here, will be expanded to other PriceRite and ShopRite locations, a spokeswoman for the UFCW, based in Washington, D.C., told SN on Friday. A majority of PriceRite workers are part-time, and are not eligible for health care, she said. After PriceRite workers expressed a desire to join the union, Wakefern began distributing anti-union information, according to Amber Sparks, the UFCW spokeswoman. ShopRite workers already belong to the UFCW. A Wakefern spokeswoman could not be reached for comment.

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