Local 1500 Denounces Grocers "Economic Discrimination"; Transports Low Income and Senior Residents to Affordable Supermarket...

Access to quality, affordable food...

United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, the state's largest grocery workers Union, is transporting low income residents and seniors from Long Island City to a nearby Pathmark so they can have equal and fair access to purchase food during this Holiday season. The Unions effort is in response to what it calls a growing trend of "economic discrimination" by upscale grocers who do not accept programs such as Women, Infants and Children and Food Stamps.

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