Local 1500's Labor Night with The Brooklyn Cyclones!

President Both in his windup for the first pitch!

Last night we all filled the bleachers at MCU Park at Coney Island in Brooklyn to for our first annual Labor Night with the Brooklyn Cyclones!  The fun began when Local 1500 President Bruce Both threw out the first pitch!  

Thank you to all who attended and made this event great and helped raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.  

You can view pictures from the event on our Google Plus Page here: https://plus.google.com/photos/109970984195102264623/albums/5782827354306098977?authkey=CNq-7oG9ipypZg

Local 1500's Labor Night w/ The Brooklyn Cyclones

 

Batter Up! Come on down to MCU Stadium in Coney Island and join your union brothers and sisters for the first annual Local 1500 Labor Night!  Help us fill MCU Park in Brooklyn with solidarity to watch the Brooklyn Cyclones play the Hudson Valley Renegades.

Not only are tickets an unlimited $5 per seat, but the first 3,000 fans will be getting a Red Brooklyn Cyclones Jersey! Other Local 1500 prizes will be handed out!

To purchase tickets please email info@ufcw1500.org or call 800-522-0456 ext. 1354.

All Local 1500 members, family & friends are invited! You can also RSVP on Facebook.

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"... As part of our overall strategy, store locations are consistently analyzed and assessed based on a number of factors including performance and market conditions," the statement said. "Stores that have been underperformers for quite some time, despite the best efforts of our management, employees and increased promotional programs which still do not achieve satisfactory operating results must be closed.

" ... While some employees are being offered work elsewhere in our retail chain, to those associates who are affected by this decision, we thank them for their dedication and great efforts over their years of service and regret the impact this closure will have on those who will be leaving the company. And of course, we thank our valued customers for their patronage over the years and hope they will continue to allow us to serve them at the nearest Pathmark location."

Cirangle, who said she had worked at the store for 27 years, said that pharmacy employees would be allowed to apply for jobs at A&P, but they would have to first resign their positions with Pathmark and reapply A&P because "Pathmark pharmacy employees are union and A&P's are not."

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