Monday Morning One Liners...NYS Senate update

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New labor rules under an Obama presidency and a Democratic supermajority in Congress could result in additional grocery chains being unionized within six months, according to a union organizer speaking in a conference call Friday. Patrick O’Neill, executive vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

Wal-Mart Stores garnered the No. 1 position in Cannondale’s 2008 PoweRanking survey of retailers, marking the Bentonville, Ark.-based company’s 10th consecutive year in that spot

Sholom Rubashkin, son of Agriprocessors owner Abraham Aaron Rubashkin and a former plant manager, has been charged with conspiracy to harbor undocumented immigrants for financial gain, aiding and abetting document fraud, and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. In May, the Postville, Iowa, plant was raided, and agents arrested 389 workers, more than 30 of which were reportedly children.

Foley has a significant lead over Trunzo.

A new poll from Siena College [PDF] of six key State Senate races show Democrats on the verge of ousting an incumbent on Long Island, and successfully defending a seat in Erie County, but losing in Buffalo--and possibly even in Queens

70 Years of GOP Senate may be over tomorrow.

This could lead to chaos.

Gowanus Whole Foods update, Tuesday Morning One Liners...

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Morning Read: 09/02/2008

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union said it has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against 2 Sisters Food Group, the primary supplier of prepared foods for Tesco-owned Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, over the alleged firing of six workers.
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BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. announced that Herb Zarkin, Chairman and CEO; Laura Sen, President and COO and Frank Forward, CFO will speak at the Goldman Sachs 15^th Annual Global Retail Conference on September 4, 2008 at 10:25 a.m. Eastern Time at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

NY1 covers Zagats reviews of Amish Market & Agata and Valentina.

The owner of two grocery stores in Bethesda, Md., was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison last week for failure to collect and pay payroll taxes, according to a statement by the Department of Justice.
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Here's a blog covering the small progress of the Gowanus Whole Foods.

Agriprocessors, the Brooklyn-based company that is the nation’s largest kosher meat producer, is well known for the labor troubles at its meatpacking plant in Iowa — federal agents detained 389 of its workers as illegal immigrants in May, and labor officials in Iowa have accused it of employing 57 under-age workers.

Stretching your dollar at Whole Foods.

Editorial: Grocery Stores gear up for food fight.

Denver Post: As labor numbers continue to slip, big labor makes a big political push.

Wal-Mart Stores here has transformed more that 1,700 of its Garden Centers into one-stop shops for football tailgaiters. 
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An industry coalition last week submitted a petition to put a measure on the ballot in Seattle, calling for the repeal of a 20-cent tax on both paper and plastic grocery bags, according to reports.
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At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.