Daily Kos Labor digest: Have a union-made Thanksgiving

The AFL-CIO offers some union-made Thanksgiving choices, including:

Turkey
Boar's Head?UFCW
Butterball?UFCW
Foster Poultry Farms?UFCW
Thumann's?UFCW [...]

Side Dishes
Ocean Spray Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce?IAM
Birds Eye vegetables?UFCW
Betty Crocker Specialty Potatoes?BCTGM

Bread
Pillsbury crescent rolls, frozen and bake rolls/breads?BCTGM
Pillsbury pie crusts?BCTGM
Stroehmann bakery products (for stuffing)?BCTGM

Dessert
Sara Lee pumpkin, apple pie?BCTGM
Mother?s Kitchen pies and cakes?BCTGM
Nabisco cookies?BCTGM

In 2010, she was one of the associates invited to the Wal-Mart shareholders? meeting, where she attended presentations on the great things the company said it was doing, for women, or against hunger, while its workers weren?t making enough to pay their bills and were subjected to unpredictable scheduling. She was shocked when an executive wanted to close the meeting with his favorite verse of Scripture: Luke 12:48, ?For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.? ?

For her, that moment of disconnect between the Christian values the executives professed to uphold and the reality she experienced at work was the last straw. ?Right there I started praying for the Lord to expose these things in Wal-Mart.?

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Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/15/1161301/-Daily-Kos-Labor-digest-Have-a-union-made-Thanksgiving

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