Union leader’s lavish pay, perks draw fire

By Jessica Guynn

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

He earned more than $500,000 in 2003.

He has two pilots on staff to chauffeur him in a private jet.

He drives a luxury car and enjoys a $28,000-a-year country club membership.

His 1,100-square-foot office is the size of a small house.

But Jack Loveall is not a corporate executive. The 68-year-old president of the United Food and Commer-cial Workers Union 588 in Roseville is just paid like one.

A self-described champion of the working class, Loveall is one of the highest-paid union leaders in thenation, representing some 23,000 grocery and food industry workers from Modesto to the Oregon borderwhose dues subsidize his salary and perks.

Thanks to a $100,000 raise last year, Loveall gets paid more in one month than many of these workersmake in a year. In fact, Loveall and six family members made a collective $1.1 million in 2003, accountingfor about a quarter of the union’s payroll, according to the most recent financial statement UFCW 588filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Loveall did not return repeated calls for this story. Representatives of UFCW 588 would only speak to theTimes on the condition of anonymity.

They argue that Loveall, who got his start more than a half century ago as a teenage produce clerk inDetroit, is worth his wages for making Northern California grocery workers the best-paid in the nation.

During the past two decades, in a period of waning union influence and membership, this maverick’sshrewd business sense and sharp instincts helped build a vibrant and modern union that spans 33 counties,counts millions of dollars in assets and exercises force at the bargaining table, they say.

From most accounts, Loveall is the most powerful union official representing grocery workers in Califor-nia. How he used that influence over the years has been a source of controversy within the labor move-ment.

His toughest critics cast Loveall as a throwback to the union excesses of another era. They say Loveall hasprospered by running the union as his own personal fiefdom, padding the payroll with family members andcronies and muzzling opposition from union dissidents.

In the process, they say, he has struck the best deals, not for grocery workers, but for himself.

High-stakes negotiation

That criticism has reemerged as Loveall takes the lead in high-stakes negotiations with supermarket chainsthis summer. Loveall, who represents 17,000 grocery workers in Northern California whose contractexpires in mid-July, is in active negotiations with the chains, which are determined to slash labor costs tobetter compete with Wal-Mart and other nonunion stores.

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OwnerNoteThis article was written by Jessica Guynn

OwnerNoteJack Loveall has preyed on group a of laborers (most of them suffering from apathy) who he could intimidate and show by the preponderance of the evidence just how uninformed most of these members were back when he arrived in the 1980's and still are.

OwnerNoteWow, representatives, some making close to $100,000 a year, not wanting to let anybody know who they are...Are they afraid to let anybody know who they are?

OwnerNoteThis is probably when Jack Loveall learned how to be dishonest.

OwnerNoteIt was only when Jack Nordby ran against Jack Loveall in 1997 did the members of this Union received their first raise in many years. I guess when Jack Loveall and his family and friends were being exposed for their outrageous salaries in 1997, they decided it was time to find a way to get all of their members a raise too...

OwnerNoteHe has become the most powerful union official only because Government agencies has allowed his kind of corruption to exist...

OwnerNoteThis is a very true statement...

OwnerNoteThis man, his union family members, and his union family friends, earn so much money that they can no longer even relate to union members working at the stores...

OwnerNoteDues were approximately $18 a month when Jack Loveall took over this union. Dues are sitting at $48 a month today in the Sacramento area.

OwnerNoteNon union operators like Wal-Mart have been allowed to grow only because of the corruption going on in our UFCW Unions today.

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The deal Loveall negotiates for his members is likely to become the blueprint for some 30,000 other grocery workersin the Bay Area and its environs, whose contract expires Sept. 11. Loveall and the other union leaders expect theirtoughest battle yet on the heels of the punishing 139-day supermarket strike that stretched from San Luis Obispo toSan Diego.

In Southern California, union leaders underestimated the depth of cuts that the chains would demand. In the comingweeks, Loveall undoubtedly faces a similar challenge. He must pressure recalcitrant supermarket management into agood contract and stave off efforts to reduce medical coverage and establish lower pay and benefits for new hires.

As other Northern California union leaders brace for the fight to preserve their members’ livelihood, some privatelyfear that Loveall’s rich compensation and privileged lifestyle could undermine public sympathy for grocery workers.

The average full-time grocery job for a large Bay Area supermarket chain pays $15.30 an hour or $31,824 a year,according to the Bay Area Economic Forum. In 2003, Loveall earned a base salary of $486,734, more than 15 timesthat. In addition to his gross salary, Loveall pulled down $20,000 as a senior vice president with the UFCW interna-tional union and received $60,036 in disbursements for official business.

The UFCW 588 executive board establishes the compensation of all union officers, according to union bylaws filedwith the Department of Labor.

At least five of Loveall’s family members, including his daughter, two sons and son-in-law, sat on that board in 2003,according to documents filed with the Labor Department. Eleven of the 21 board members, including Loveall, werepaid union staffers.

Unusually high compensation is often a red flag that a union is not democratically run, union watchdogs say. If aunion leader’s performance merits top pay, his or her members should have the opportunity to vote on it, watchdogssay.

“The fact that the salaries are so high suggests a union where the leadership is unaccountable to members,” said CarlBiers, executive director of the Brooklyn-based Association for Union Democracy.

Loveall’s supporters say Loveall, whose motto is “strength through solidarity,” couldn’t be more accountable to hismembers or work more tirelessly on their behalf. They point to the union’s robust finances and track record innegotiating labor contracts.

In 2003, UFCW 588 had net assets of $4.4 million, according to a financial statement the union recently filed withthe Labor Department. A union official estimates that the true market value of the union’s assets, including that of itsheadquarters, which cost approximately $4 million to build in the late 1980s, is, in fact, much higher.

The union negotiates, administers and enforces more than 200 separate collective bargaining agreements, overseesapproximately $3.3 billion in pension assets and ensures that more than $300 million in health care benefits is paideach year to UFCW members in Northern California, a UFCW 588 official said.

“Jack has always been a step ahead in terms of the administration of that local,” said an official with the UFCWinternational. “He runs a very efficient local union.”

Loveall supporters give much of that credit to Loveall and his family members. They say the union runs not as anepotistic hierarchy but as the purest sort of meritocracy. “What is the criticism? Is it that we don’t get the jobdone?” a UFCW 588 official asked. “I guess if we were failing as a union, I could accept the criticisms a little moreeasily. We’re not.”

Furthermore, union members simply don’t care how much Loveall makes, contends a close Loveall associate. Theyonly care how much they themselves make. “The question is: Is Jack doing a good job for his members?” the associ-ate said. “The bottom line is that no one questions his ability or his commitment to his membership.”

OwnerNoteJack Loveall probably already has a contract agreement with the employers. Jack Loveall has been the Employer's best friend over the last twenty years...

OwnerNoteJack Loveall earned more than the UFCW International President---why is that ?

OwnerNoteThe executive board of UFCW 588 should be ashamed of themselves. Take 100 thieves caught stealing in a Wal-Mart store, give them jobs at this Union, and they wouldn't even pay themselves this much money...

OwnerNoteIt is also possible that Jack Loveall has a mentally impaired son working at the store level earning what other grocery store clerks earn? And if so, does this appear to be an "Americans With Disability Act" discrimination case? If Jack Loveall does have a son with a mental disability, why isn't this son being allowed to make the big bucks at the Union office?

OwnerNoteWhat union watchdogs? Jack Loveall is living proof that there aren't any union watchdogs out there. If there are some, they don't have any teeth in their mouths!!! They probably had them all pulled out by some Union paid dentist.

OwnerNoteThen why did the Department of Labor deny the members an election in 1997?

OwnerNoteAnother true statement!

OwnerNoteAt the bottom are quotes from Jack Loveall's supporters. Note: These supporters are also store clerks in many of the stores Mr. Loveall negotiate contracts with. In fact, most of these supporters are also "paid" vice-presidents of Mr. Loveall's union. I am sure that 99.999% of the union members that read these quotes from UFCW 588 voice's newsletter would not have known that these individuals were also "paid" vice-presidents of this Union...What an obvious glimpse at corruption.

OwnerNoteHow would anybody know if what Jack Loveall and UFCW 588 reported to the dishonest Department of Labor would have any accuracy attached to it?

OwnerNoteAnd yet most of this enforcement is being done by union reps that can't answer 99% of the questions union members are asking them...

OwnerNoteThis union had great benefits, was very open and a successful union before Jack Loveall took over. This union even had democratic elections before Jack Loveall took over. It has gone down hill since...

OwnerNoteThis is not true. There is one store in Sacramento where 100% of the members would like to see Mr. Loveall and this union corruption leave this union. Plus, they are outraged by these salaries.. Repeat-100%. Many additional stores of 100% are also around...

Popularity with members

A UFCW official said Loveall’s popularity speaks to that commitment. Indeed, some UFCW 588 members inter-viewed by the Times said they are both pleased with the contracts Loveall has negotiated on their behalf and un-troubled by his pay and perks. Kelly McCoy, a retired clerk, says he in particular appreciates his union’s healthcoverage, which helped him afford heart bypass surgery and other expensive medical procedures. Martha Steinwandt,also a retired clerk, said she too is grateful to the Lovealls for medical benefits that helped her afford treatment forher son’s illnesses.

“They make exorbitant amounts of money. But what are you going to do? There is nothing you can do about it. Theyset their own wages,” Steinwandt said. “They’ve been really good to me.”

But a smattering of UFCW 588 members view Loveall’s compensation differently. From their vantage point on thegrocery store floor, they describe a leader who isolates himself from the rank-and-file and who is unresponsive totheir needs.

They say they have never met Loveall nor been inside his well-appointed office. Union representatives rarely visit thestores, they contend. Some workers allege they have not been properly represented in grievance procedures eventhough the union touts its representation of grocery workers and training of shop stewards.

Union membership meetings held 24 miles from 588’s headquarters in an industrial section of Sacramento aresparsely attended, workers say. One grocery clerk interviewed at random by the Times said he didn’t think clerkswere allowed to attend the meetings. In fact, he didn’t know any clerk who had.

“You don’t even know what’s going on half the time,” the clerk said. “The only time you see the union people is whensomething is getting ready to have a major effect on the union. They don’t come through to find out the concerns inthe store. It seems like the union (leaders are) just looking out for themselves.”

Loveall vigorously defended his income in an interview with the Sacramento Bee in 1992, when he was making$235,486. “Just because we run a union doesn’t mean we are supposed to be paupers,” he said. “We representpeople and get them good contracts. I get paid good wages. My staff gets paid good wages. My members don’t wantme driving around in a stagecoach or working in some (expletive)house office.”

His elegant offices force deep-pocketed supermarket chains to take UFCW 588 seriously, Loveall said in the inter-view. “Employers walk into this office and they see we have a first-class operation. And they say, ‘Uh oh, we’re notscrewing around with some Mickey Mouse operation.’”

Loveall told the Bee that his union-paid country club membership is for talking business and that the plane — he’snow on his third — helps him get around the union’s vast territory.

“We have had an aircraft since the late 1980s,” said one UFCW 588 official, “and I can tell you we’ve also had faxmachines since the late 1980s.”

Union roots

To some, that assertion — airplanes are as necessary to smoothly running a union as fax machines — seems incon-gruous for a union representing food workers whose leader was born into the labor movement.

Loveall’s father took part in the first organizing efforts of the United Mine Workers and later became a member ofthe United Auto Workers. His mother helped organize the A-C Spark Plug plant in Flint, Mich.

Loveall climbed from grocery clerk to the top of the UFCW through hard work, ingenuity and an unrelenting drive toimprove the lives of working people, say colleagues. Driving that ascent, they say, was a consuming mission totransform retail jobs into a path to middle-class security — that, and fierce personal ambition.

OwnerNoteMembers benefits were better before Mr. Loveall took over this union. The number of take aways since Jack Loveall became President would surprise most members. In addition, many union jobs at store level have disappeared because Jack Loveall has allowed so many vendors to stock their own merchandise inside the stores. Merchandise that union members were required to stock. Not anymore! The employers could give Mr. Loveall a big hug for this.

OwnerNoteThis a true statement.

OwnerNoteThis is a true statement.

OwnerNoteWhy would members want to attend a union meeting when after they arrive at the meeting, nobody is there except a car in the parking lot with two people sitting inside? Like their purpose for being there is to alert somebody if some member does show up for the union meeting. Then, after about 15 minutes, union representatives come pouring into the parking lot while driving their vehicles, still dressed in their baseball outfits and nobody has a key to get inside of the Union hall...I guess when nobody is expected to show up for union meetings, the union representative just as might as well play baseball on union meeting night. What a pitiful sham...

OwnerNoteAnother true statement.

OwnerNoteWell, Jack Loveall is being paid to make sure that his members all have cars to drive in. Many don't. I don't believe any member wanted Jack Loveall to buy a jet at their expense so Jack Loveall would be afforded the privilege of bypassing the roads all together. It wouldn't be surprising to find out that Jack Loveall flies his jet whenever he needs to go from his living room to his kitchen.

OwnerNoteNot only does this man have to look at himself in the mirror, but he also has to live with himself. Can you imagine the arrogance of anybody earning a large salary off of union members dues and then thinking he should have such generous perks to go along with his outrageously large salary?

OwnerNoteI want the union to prove that they had fax machines back in the late 1980's.

OwnerNoteThis is what most psychiatrists would claim are delusions. The only lives he has improved are his, his family, and the thugs he has on the union payroll.

OwnerNoteThe supermarket chains have been blessed by Jack Loveall over the years. Especially all those years that clerks didn't even get a raise during a 3 year contract...years that Jack Loveall and family were giving themselves hefty raises...

After stints as a business agent, then as an organizer, Loveall ran a large union in Montreal and eventually joined thestaff of the international union, overseeing large regional swaths, including 11 years as the western regional director.

Two decades ago, after suffering a massive heart attack, Loveall abandoned his aspiration to become president of theUFCW international union in Washington, D.C. A family member said Loveall left the high-pressure job with theinternational union for his health and to spend more time with his wife and seven children.

Sources familiar with the situation contend that Loveall was passed over. Instead, Douglas Dority was named orga-nizing director for the international union, a stepping-stone to the presidency from which he retired this year.

In December 1984, Loveall took over UFCW 588, a fledgling Sacramento union with fewer than 5,000 members.The circumstances are disputed, but Loveall persuaded then-union president Wynn Plank, who was near retirementage, to step down and was appointed president of the local in a special meeting of the executive board.

“He definitely saw potential (in Sacramento),” a family member said. “He loved Northern California. He had been allover the country. He clearly selected this as where he wanted to call home.”

Loveall set out to create the state’s largest UFCW local by aggressively organizing independent nonunion grocersand merging with neighboring unions. Loveall even officially changed the name of his local to UFCW 588 NorthernCalifornia.

His expansionist philosophy reflected a growing trend in the UFCW. As membership slipped, grocery-worker unionshad begun to merge to increase their ranks and therefore their clout with supermarket chains, which had mushroomedfrom smaller regional players into major national corporations.

announcing that union members would meet to discuss and vote on a merger with UFCW 588 eight days later.

Ross-Smith organized a group called the Committee for Accountable Leadership to stall the vote so that the unionmembers could get more information. Barbara Carpenter, now president of UFCW 1179, which represents approxi-mately 5,000 grocery workers in Contra Costa County, was one of the rank-and-file members who joined that group.Nearly 400 members turned out over concerns that Loveall was after the union’s mortgage-free building and $1.5million strike fund.

Their bitter opposition ultimately foiled the merger, but did not slow the spread of anonymous fliers attackingLoveall. Loveall suspected Ross-Smith and other UFCW 1179 members and launched an investigation. His union’slawyer, Steve Stemerman, showed up unannounced at members’ homes, seeking information. UFCW 588 dispatchedstaffers to follow Ross-Smith and others.

Flurry of mergers

A UFCW 588 official said several Northern California unions initiated merger discussions. The first union merger in1989 with UFCW 916 made UFCW 588 the largest grocery and food worker union in Northern California and thethird largest in California with 15,000 members.

But Loveall’s merger spree in the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked protest from dissident members who arguedthat Loveall would use their unions’ assets and membership dues to support his lavish lifestyle while union workerswould get less say in electing officers and in contract negotiations.

Loveall, who masterfully executed the union mergers, was unstoppable. Critics say he offered union executives cushyjobs and salaries. For example, one of the first unions Loveall took over was UFCW Local 498, a meat-cutter local inSacramento with 1,600 members and net assets of $2.3 million. Thomas Lawson, the union’s president who wasmaking $12,557 in 1991, landed a job as a vice president with UFCW 588, making $85,151. Obie Brandon, theunion’s treasurer, saw his pay jump from $10,744 to $75,945. In 2003, as a vice president with UFCW 588, Brandonmade $138,405. His son, Eric Brandon, a business representative on the 588 payroll, made $67,857. His brother-in-law Raymond Kristoff is also a business representative and made $79,989.

OwnerNoteThis is how this union avoid democratic elections.

OwnerNoteHe saw a union where most members were viewed as "apathetic" and he knew he struck oil in UFCW 588. The members have nobody to blame but themselves for Jack Loveall being their president...

OwnerNoteJack Loveall knew that the secret to large outrageous salaries was to have as many union members, in the union, paying higher union dues.

OwnerNoteThis is true. Most UFCW Unions are now following Jack Loveall's footsteps by giving themselves outrageous salaries too. Put ten (10) dogs in your back yard. Put a couple of fleas on one of them, and within a short period of time, all the dogs will have fleas...poor little fleas...

OwnerNoteThis sentence shouldn't be here.

OwnerNoteDid Barbara Carpenter of UFCW 1179 (and UFCW 1179) pay Jessica Guynn money to write this article for the Contra Costa Times?

OwnerNoteThese are true statements. There was probably a time in America where everybody identified in this paragraph would have been tarred and feathered.

Alleged intimidation

Ross-Smith says that UFCW 588 staffers staked out his home and tailed him in union cars. In June 1994, Ross-Smithwas rear-ended in Walnut Creek by three UFCW 588 business agents following him too closely in a white 1993 FordThunderbird leased to the union, according to a traffic collision report from the Walnut Creek police department.Preston “Tom” Epperson, a 588 member in the car, confirms that he and the driver, Tom Pate, were following Ross-Smith but says Pate hit Ross-Smith’s car inadvertently. Pate refused to comment.

A Loveall associate does not deny the practice. He defends it. “Any local would have done the same thing,” he said.“You would follow people to get evidence to support the charges.”

But critics allege that Loveall also has tried to intimidate political opponents. Jack Nordby, a Raley’s clerk, attemptedto run against Loveall in 1997 in what would have been Loveall’s only contested election since Loveall took overUFCW 588.

Nordby, who now lives in Santa Rosa, where he runs Faith and Joy, a Christian bookstore, says he wanted to take onLoveall to give members a voice in how their union is run. If he had succeeded in toppling Loveall, Nordby said hewould have slashed the salaries of union officers and business representatives and opened up labor negotiations to themembership.

But, Nordby charges, UFCW 588 pulled out all the stops to keep him from running. After he started campaigning inmid-July 1997, Nordby says union staffers followed him and his family, scaring his wife and daughters on the way tochurch one Sunday morning. When he went into grocery stores to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot,Nordby says union representatives harassed him. Those union representatives then badgered grocery workers whosigned his petition into removing their signatures, Nordby alleges. The union reps claim Nordby misrepresented himselfto grocery workers who readily agreed to remove their signatures when they learned who he really was, a Loveallassociate said.

So many union members removed their signatures that Nordby did not have enough support to run.

“I think the union got scared. They didn’t want to take any chance even though there was no way the guy was going towin,” said a Raley’s meatcutter who removed his name from the petition. “They said, ‘You guys don’t want this. You’dbe jeopardizing the contract you have now.’”

A Loveall associate defended the union staffers, but said they acted on their own initiative and time. “These are peoplewho fight hard for their members and fight hard to keep their jobs,” he said.

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found no probable cause that violations occurred that would have changedthe outcome of the election on July 25, 1997.

Lorna Greenlee, a retired UFCW 588 clerk whom Nordby urged to run for president at the same time, says she too wasaccosted when she was collecting signatures. Two union staffers yelled at her inside a grocery store and then beratedher for two hours outside, demanding to see who had signed her petition. Her then 19-year-old daughter, who had aninfant son, begged her widowed mother to abandon her efforts to get on the union ballot when they say they spottedunion representatives watching their house from a parked car down the street.

“It was ridiculous,” Greenlee’s daughter said. “I told her, ‘This is not worth it. This is serious.’”

“In two days I had almost enough signatures to run against Jack Loveall. Then I got scared,” Greenlee said.

Greenlee said she eventually signed papers that stated she would drop out of the race. “I just wanted to see a realelection,” Greenlee said. “We have debates for president, debates for governor. Retail clerks should have a voice.”

OwnerNoteThis is probably another true statement.

OwnerNoteNo they fight hard to prevent democracy in a union where they reap large salaries and want to make sure that they keep reaping the large salaries. The easiest way to accomplish that is to make sure nobody has the opportunity to see an election ballot.

OwnerNoteThis was a corrupted investigation. I wonder who in the Government came up with the idea that the easiest way to close your eyes to election fraud is to make sure that the phrase "It wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election" is somewhere in the conclusion of the bogus investigation? That phrase makes is sound so logical and final. Wouldn't have changed the outcome of what election? There has never been an election at this Union since Jack Loveall took over. But that clever phrase "it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election" is probably a favorite phrase that is used by corrupt Government agencies.

OwnerNoteIt is serious. Just look at how Jessica Guynn's article was written.

OwnerNoteNo, these retails clerk deserve Jack Loveall and all of his corruption. Their long standing apathy has become their vote.

OwnerNoteNo, Jack Nordby was spreading the word of "UFCW 588 CORRUPTION" so the members could see for themselves what was happening at this union. A large percentage of the union members had no idea how much money they were paying their union representatives.

OwnerNoteThe Department of Labor showed by their actions that they are just as corrupt as Jack Loveall and are probably on the take. They also have even assisted Jack Loveall in raising the members union dues over $14 since 1997. Had the members been given the chance to have an election in 1997, Mr. Nordby would have had plenty of support to rid this union of Mr. Loveall and his cronies...

OwnerNoteA member of UFCW 588 spent many hours coming up with her signatures, and then she cowards out and slaps the democratic process in the face.

OwnerNoteHe should have stated "any local run by thugs would have done the same thing!"

OwnerNoteNO-so many union wimps removed their signatures...

The union’s future

UFCW 588’s next election is in December 2006. Sources say Jack Loveall may install his 42-year-old son, Jacques,as president by stepping down before the end of his term. Such a maneuver would bypass a membership vote. As thenewly appointed secretary-treasurer of UFCW 588, Jacques Loveall automatically would fill the vacancy until theexecutive board selects a president to serve for the remaining balance of the term, according to the union bylaws.

Jack Loveall, who is already described by some as semi-retired, has handed off some of his management responsibili-ties to Jacques, who in recent years has assumed a more visible role in the union.

A dominant figure for three decades in the California labor movement, Jack Loveall will leave his son big shoes tofill. His critics are suspicious, however, about what the lifelong unionist will leave with in his pockets. Loveall couldwalk away with a large lump-sum severance payment in addition to a healthy pension. Those kinds of agreements arenot disclosed in financial statements unions must file with the federal government.

When he does retire, Loveall’s legacy is likely to be twofold. His allies say Loveall will be remembered as an effectiveand indefatigable advocate who delivered for his members. They acknowledge he also will be remembered for howwell he compensated himself for it.

“He’s at the top of the heap in terms of leadership in Northern California,” said one UFCW official. “Whether healways used it in the right way, that’s an open question.”

Reach Jessica Guynn at 925-952-2671 or jguynn@cctimes.com.

OwnerNoteSee how this corruption exists. They don't want to give their members a ballot and the ability to vote them out of their high paying jobs. There are many members that have each paid over $10,000 in union dues since belonging to this union, and each of them have never had the opportunity to vote Jack Loveall, family, and friends out...unbelievable

OwnerNoteWell, by looking at the amount of weight Jacques has gained in a recent picture, he should be able to fill those shoes very quickly...In fact that picture is on the very last page of this pdf file.

OwnerNoteThis is a true statement.

OwnerNoteThis man has become very successful at being at the top of the heap. But, then again, if another person can tolerate that kind of "stink" while being where Jack Loveall is, then he too will be where Jack Loveall is and will reap what Jack Loveall has reaped in his life.

OwnerNoteAnd ask her what was the purpose of her article, and if she was paid by UFCW 1179 to write this article..

OwnerNote

OwnerNoteThis is the front of the building.

OwnerNoteThis is a side view of the same building.

OwnerNoteThe next pages are quotes that were found in a UFCW 588 Voice newsletter. These quotes were made by retail clerks working inside the employers stores and they were voicing their opinions about the most recent contract being overwhelmingly accepted. However, 99.999% of the UFCW 588's membership that read these quotes did not know that these quotes were made by paid UFCW 588 Union Vice-Presidents...Plus, most of the union workers inside of the stores had voted against this contract. So Jack Loveall got many of his loyal store fans to write wonderful things about the contract and Jack Loveall. Store fans who were also paid vice presidents of UFCW 588... NO conflict of interest here at 588...

OwnerNoteMike Perrin is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. He is also a paid Vice President. Read his wonderful words...

OwnerNoteBea Medinas is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. She is also a paid Vice President. Read her wonderful words...

OwnerNoteLinda Wyman is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. She is also a paid Vice President. Read her wonderful words...

OwnerNoteLori Thurn is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. She is also a paid Vice President. Read her wonderful words...

OwnerNoteJames Brown is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. He is also a paid Vice President. Read his wonderful words...

OwnerNoteCindy Hammond is a real supporter to Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. She is also a paid Vice President. Read her wonderful words...

OwnerNoteAll of these remarks were true even before Jack Loveall took over our Union.

OwnerNoteBelow is the proof that all of the store clerk opinions above were also "paid" vice presidents of UFCW 588. Did somebody say that there are union watchdogs out there? ....Where?

OwnerNoteZoom in on this photo of Jacques Loveall and see that he will be able to fill Jack Loveall's shoes in a very short period of time.

OwnerNoteHere is a copy of the original Footprints.

OwnerNoteHere is "Footprints"-Jack Loveall and UFCW 588 style. Why did they have to change the original Footprints poem?

OwnerNoteFootprints was changed again to reflect Jack Loveall and UFCW 588.

OwnerNoteThe following pages represent emails that Jessica sent and received to help write her article.

OwnerNoteInside of this envelope, that has a post stamp dated June 15, 2004, contains the Contra Costa Times newspaper with the article that Jessica Guynn wrote about Jack Loveall and UFCW 588. This envelope is still unopened.