But the chain already faces other unfair labor practice charges in Menasha, Racine, and Kenosha, Wis., all brought to the NLRB by the UFCW. They add they doubt Wiggly Piggly will shut all those stores just to escape future court rulings. Observers say his order could extend to all 102 Piggly Wiggly Midwest stores in Wisconsin and Illinois. He ordered the Sheboygan store to restore full-time status and health care rights to workers whose hours were cut to part-time without bargaining with their union, and to refrain from such unilateral decisions in the future. The court’s next move, after the grocery chain defied Clevert’s order to bargain, is unknown. It first held a mutual meeting June 11, then used the lawyers the next day to “continue its unlawful behavior,” in Sweet’s words, to send a letter to the state, the union and all 108 Sheboygan store workers announcing its intention to close the store. Piggly Wiggly’s sudden action was led by a notorious union busting law firm, Jackson Lewis, which just opened an office in Milwaukee. And Wisconsin media ignored a landmark federal ruling – the first such action in a dozen years affirming collective bargaining, workers’ rights to organize, and a chosen union’s priority to have its contract heeded. UFCW lawyer Mark Sweet has complained to Piggly Wiggly about its new avoidance tactics. Piggly Wiggly’s evasion of good faith bargaining, even though Clevert vindicated his local’s stand, distressed UFCW Local President John Eiden: “It’s sad it had to come to this, where the employer can’t sit down and bargain in good faith with the union.” Observers called it a total union victory and a winning first round against Piggly Wiggly’s treatment of its unionized workers. The Sheboygan complaint by UFCW against Piggly Wiggly was backed in May by a 60-page decision by a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge, and by Clevert’s order to Piggly Wiggly to make the workers whole and refrain from further such action. District Judge Charles Clevert’s ruling against Piggly Wiggly in May, and other impending complaints against Piggly Wiggly around Wisconsin. Local media in Wisconsin largely ignored the dispute, U.S. Piggly Wiggly’s anti-union stand is the real meaning of its truncated statement June 12 of the Sheboygan closing, observers say. National and Quebec labor boards had ordered Walmart to bargain with its workers in those two cases. In Jonquiere, Quebec, the retail monster closed its store rather than bargain with UFCW Canada, which had organized it.Īnd in Texas, when a small group of meatcutters organized, again with UFCW, Walmart closed all of its meatcutting operations nationwide. PigglyWiggly’s defiance echoes that of the world’s largest and anti-union retailer, Walmart, in both Quebec and Tyler, Texas. 1, throwing all 108 workers into the street, rather than submit to a federal court ruling that it broke the law by cutting 19 workers from full-time to part-time in violation of its United Food and Commercial Workers contract requiring negotiation of such moves. – In an anti-union hard line reminiscent of Walmart, Piggly Wiggly announced it would close its Sheboygan, Wis., store on Sept. 1928 Polk’s Oakland, California City Directory.OMCA Collections: 40th Street at Piedmont Avenue Oakland Museum of California.Oakland History Center, Oakland Public Library College Avenue, looking north toward Shafter Ave.1 1928 directory listi30th and Grove (MLK) 6Ĭirca 1927, Piggly Wiggly sponsored an amateur baseball team in Oakland. This is taken from the east side of the street at Lawton. The store with the "CIGARS" sign is now the bar Ye Old Hut. Also visible is the Uptown Theater, Campbell’s Shoes, and Tower’s Gift Shop with “Merry Christmas” banner over the street. Piggly Wiggly Store, College Avenue looking north toward Shafter Avenue in the Rockridge District, Oakland, California - 1930. “was one of the earliest grocery chains, established by Andrew Williams about 1921.” 2 Piggly Wiggly Pacific was purchased by Safeway Stores in 1928, and all existing Piggly Wigglies in Oakland were converted to Safeways by the mid-1930s - which helps explain why over 80 Safeway stores are listed in the 1941 Polk’s City Directory for Oakland. 3Īccording to OMCA Collections, Piggly Wiggly Pacific Co., Inc. One was on College Avenue in Rockridge another was at 3966 Piedmont Avenue. The 1928 Polk’s City Directory for Oakland lists fully 39 stores citywide (plus another 11 in Berkeley and 4 in Alameda). The Piggly Wiggly grocery-store chain was heavily represented in 1920s and 1930s Oakland. Note the "All Over the World" slogan on the sign, and the "We Double dog dare anyone to undersell this store" painted on the window.
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