Talk:United Food and Commercial Workers/Comments

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This is one of the most biased, negative, and incomplete items I have ever seen in Wikipedia. It provides almost no information about what the union does, which workers it represents, or the thousands of union contracts it negotiates for its members every year.

An example of its one-sidedness is mention about the Smithfield company's charges against the union during an organizing campaign, including quotes from a Smithfield official, but does not include any mention of the numerous labor law violations the union has charged the company with committing -- or the $12 million fine the EPA ordered Smithfield to pay for water pollution. Another example of bias is mention of the California grocery strike with no point of view from the union workers and why they felt compelled to strike -- only negative things about the settlement.

Nearly two thirds of the article discusses "work stoppages and conflict with corporations", "internal reform efforts" and "criticism." Ninety-nine percent of all contract negotiations are settled without strikes, but none of these are mentioned.

The "criticism" section mentions a newspaper article from 2005 and nothing else. Why not have a "plaudits" section to provide perspective? Resources listed include some of the most anti-union websites in existence with very few labor references that could provide a balanced picture.

This item not only is utterly incomplete, but it is not in the least objective.