Patti Bruha of Rite Aid has been a pharmacist for 35 years. She grew up in Wisconsin and got her degree at the University of Madison. After interning she grew tired of the weather and moved to the warm shores of California. Bruha worked for Thrifty which then became Rite Aid as a Pharmacist from […]
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On September 15, 1933, a young, New York labor organizer by the name of Rose Pesotta landed in Los Angeles. Pesotta once worked in Southern California where she had been discharged from a garment factory and blacklisted for union activity. Now Pesotta was returning at the request of garment workers to organize their industry. Within […]
read more »Bruce Reeves of Ralphs #154, has been a member of the Executive Board since just after the strike/lock-out of 2003/04. Reeves started as a courtesy clerk in 1979 working his way through to the meat department as a meat cutter. Funny enough, his first ever-union rep was our president, Greg Conger. As a single dad […]
read more »Doris Barlow of Vons #2041 is a member of the Executive Board and a union steward. Barlow has been in the industry for 39 years working her way up from a traffic controller to cashiering where she is today. When asked what inspired her to get more involved she said, “I wanted to try to […]
read more »Laurinda Fiddler has become synonymous with Union inside the gates of Disneyland. It is a fitting distinction considering that many in the union’s Buena Park headquarters describe Fiddler as “the face of Disneyland,” as one employee put it. She has been a union steward at Disney for several years and currently sits on the Local […]
read more »Charles Swain of Albertsons #6110, has been a member of the Executive Board since July of 2008. When asked what inspired him to get more involved he said: “I grew tired of watching more workers not getting involved in their union.” Swain has been in the industry for 30 years, working his way up from […]
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