The corporate campaign against food lion: A study of media manipulation

Journal of Labor Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 359-375

  DiLorenzo, Thomas J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0030558910     PISSN: 01953613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02685853     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Morgan O. Reynolds, Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America (New York: Universe Books, 1984), p. 44.
2. Remarks by Douglas H. Dority at the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Retail Food Conference, Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 29, 1990. The following quotations of Dority are all from this speech.
3. Joe Crump, "The Pressure Is On: Organizing Without the NLRB," Labor Research Review, vol. 18, pp. 34, 35.
4. Ibid., pp. 36, 38.
5. Randall Bloomquist, "Tom McNutt: He's Building a Working-Class Empire on Innovation and a Willingness to Deal," Regardies: The Business of Washington, July 1988, p. 2.
6. Crump, "The Pressure Is On," pp. 42, 40.
7. Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, "Developing New Tactics: Winning With Coordinated Corporate Campaigns,"(Washington, D.C.: IUD, 1985).
8. Ibid., p. 11.
9. Joe Crump, "The Pressure is On," pp. 41, 43.
10. Ibid., p. 42.
11. The quotes in this section are from Glenn Collins, "In Grocery War, the South Rises," New York Times, April 25, 1995.
12. "The War Against Food Lion, Phase II," Washington Times, February 7, 1994.
13. "A Union's Corporate Campaign," Washington Times, May 7, 1995.
14. Elina deLisser, "Food Lion Hopes to Prove It's Not a Toothless Tiger," Wall Street Journal, May 6, 1993.
15. "The War Against Food Lion, Phase II."
16. Collins, "In Grocery War."
17. CUE Press Release dated February 4, 1994.
18. Letter to CUE members, February 4, 1994, by Robert F. Harbrant, President, Food and Allied Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, on behalf of C.U.E.
19. Eleena deLisser, "Union Group Says Food Lion, Inc., Stocks Stale Goods," Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1994.
20. Lisa Saxton, "Food Lion Hit by Claim on Dating, Refunds," Supermarket News, April 24, 1995.
21. "A Union's Corporate Campaign."
22. Ibid.
23. Neil Holthouser, "Group Singles Out Food Lion," Salisbury (NC) Post, February 4, 1994.
24. James Greiff, "Grocer Coolly Confronts Allegations," Charlotte Observer, February 5, 1994.
25. "A Union's Corporate Campaign."
26. Cumulative Chart of Maryland County Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene Authority Inspection Reports for the period March 1993 to April 1994.
27. Data obtained from Virginia Department of Agriculture Supermarket Inspection Reports for March 1993 to April 1994.
28. Comparative and Cumulative Charts of District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Food Establishment Inspection Reports, 1993-1994.
29. Remarks by Douglas H. Dority, p. 9.
30. Allen Y. Zack, Letter to the Editor of the Washington Times, June 4, 1995.
31. See Ronald J.Adams, Keith M. Jennings, and Dilip D. Kare, "An Analysis of the UFCW's Corporate Campaign against Food Lion," Labor Law Journal 45 (September 1994): 555-64.
32. Letter from Robert C. Johnson, Jr., Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, to the executive director of C.U.E., dated February 17, 1995.
33. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order (New York: MacMillan, 1957), p. 23.