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United Food and Commercial Workers www.ufcw.org Washington, DC 1992 Artful Provisions |
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Perhaps because of the open, inclusive nature of their organization, the UFCW placed only one constraint on Artists Circle Fine Art: that each piece in the new collection have a tie to the worker. How many ways can you represent Everyman through art? How about in twenty 3 x 4 inch woodcut prints, an eight foot hooked wool weaving, a thirty-two foot acrylic mural and a specially commissioned piece by Arturo Sandoval, composed of multi-color printed photographs taken specifically for the project. The UFCW employees, captured on film, then became sewn into a ten foot collage of the union logo. Artists Circle also helped commission several large scale paintings for the collection, one of which we reproduced as a limited edition print that went out, with well wishes, to all the Union’s locals. |
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I suspect most people today do not believe they have first hand experience with a Union. A quick scan through the membership of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) would surprise them. Employees of the largest grocery store chain in the Baltimore/Washington metro area, Giant Food, are on the union’s list as well as employees of Safeway, Rite Aid, and the Annapolis City Police. Like many of today’s unions, the UFCW’s reach goes far beyond “food” workers to hair dressers, ranchers, and veterinarians. All are united in the singular cause of creating a safe and productive workplace for their members.
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