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CtW Investment Group Calls on Whole Foods Board to Remove Chair and CEO John Mackey
CtW Investment Group ^ | August 24, 2009 | William Patterson CtW Investment Group

Posted on 08/26/2009 5:22:29 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus

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To: lqcincinnatus
It's all Bush's fault.
61 posted on 08/26/2009 6:03:47 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: HoosierHawk

“I can’t help wondering how “socialized medicine” helps these unions. Wouldn’t the union members be worse off, compared to their current situation?”

Members might be worse off. But many, if not most union pensions funds are on the brink of insolvency and likely to not be able to meet the demands of the coming wave of “boomer” retirement. Many of the pension agreements have a clause that alleviates their healthcare obligations if a public option is available.


62 posted on 08/26/2009 6:05:59 PM PDT by crescen7 (game on)
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To: lqcincinnatus
CtW Investment Group Who We Are

"..Founded in February 2006, the CtW Investment Group works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a federation of unions representing nearly 6 million members, to enhance long-term shareholder returns through active ownership. Members of CtW affiliates participate in Taft-Hartley plans with an estimated $217 billion in assets.

The long-term health of these pension plans, and the retirement security of the workers and families who rely upon them, are threatened by conflicts of interest on Wall Street and in the boardroom, a corporate backlash that seeks to weaken the accountability of executives to shareholders, and outright corporate fraud.

The CtW Investment Group responds to these challenges by organizing workers' capital into an effective voice for corporate accountability and retirement security..."

This is organized Union Thuggery masquerading as grass roots activism. It is another sham PR group organization.

63 posted on 08/26/2009 6:06:18 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: SeattleBruce

I joined the FB group supporting this CEO. Thanks!


64 posted on 08/26/2009 6:06:31 PM PDT by ponygirl
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To: harpu
Here's a link to their Board of Directors... Whole Food Board of Directors
65 posted on 08/26/2009 6:08:43 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: lqcincinnatus

Disagreeing with the president can ruin the company’s reputation??

Oh, I forgot. The “disagree-ers” are automatically racists.


66 posted on 08/26/2009 6:11:47 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
It isn’t like health food nuts to become sanctimonious pricks.

Good one!

67 posted on 08/26/2009 6:13:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: 444Flyer

Some FReepers are going to stop going to WF and others are going to start or go more. I don’t know what to do!

Maybe I’ll go on a hunger strike. Maybe 3 days like the Indian airline people. Or maybe until obie One drops “his” health care bill. Now there’s a serious threat.


68 posted on 08/26/2009 6:16:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: lqcincinnatus

Hitler and Mussolini had such allies who tought that those who opposed their programs were too political. They woke up too late.


69 posted on 08/26/2009 6:19:01 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: harpu
Here's another link to CEO Mackey's Blog...Let's give him some support!
70 posted on 08/26/2009 6:20:13 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: lqcincinnatus
Who is CONTACT: Per Olstad, (202) 721-6027 ?

I have someone who shops at Whole Foods & wants to protest this action. Would the above be the phone # to call or is it the # of the site that posted this information?

She said that if they actually go through with this - she is no longer going to shop there!!

71 posted on 08/26/2009 6:21:35 PM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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To: crescen7
So, if I understand what you're saying, the retiring "boomers" will go onto the Medicare rolls, assuming they're old enough. But don't the younger members understand that they'll end up on the public option, with less benes and more cost in the form of taxes?

Believe me, I'm not asking you to explain the union mindset. It just seems to me that they're shooting themselves, and the rest of us, in our collective foot.

72 posted on 08/26/2009 6:22:59 PM PDT by HoosierHawk (www.firstsundaymusic.com)
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To: HoosierHawk

“But don’t the younger members understand that they’ll end up on the public option, with less benes and more cost in the form of taxes?”

The problem is the disconnect between the union members and the union leadership. It’s not unlike the disconnect between congress and their constituents who are demanding to not pass this plan. Many of the union rank and file oppose this, but the leadership tells them its “for their own good.”

In reality, it’s likely that it will be passed to allow the unions to avoid scrutiny of the malfeasance surrounding their deplorable handling of pension funds. I believe this is why Pelosi et al blew a gasket when the possibility of omitting the “public option” was floated. No Public Option - no Union Pension Rescue.

Of course, if this fails, they’ll find some other way to “bail out” the pension - but it will “look bad”.


73 posted on 08/26/2009 6:37:02 PM PDT by crescen7 (game on)
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To: HoosierHawk

I read on a few blogs today that there is $10 billion tucked into HR3200 for a gap in union insurance/reinsurance.


74 posted on 08/26/2009 6:54:06 PM PDT by sybilll
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To: csvset
For the 2008 proxy season, for example, we will be opposing the re-election of corporate directors who bear central responsibility for the mortgage market meltdown.

Yet they will continue to massively support Chris Dodd and Barney Frank (amongst others) who both benefitted from sweetheart deals and actively resisted controls that might have mitigated the mortgage mess back in 2004-6! Unions have a place, I'm just trying to figure out where!

75 posted on 08/26/2009 6:56:14 PM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“However I may be over that way sometime in the next month and I think I will do so.”

Cool...then be sure to note the distance to home in your letter.


76 posted on 08/26/2009 6:59:29 PM PDT by BobL
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To: lqcincinnatus

Here’s a link to a good story re this:

http://247wallst.com/2009/08/25/brand-image-did-mackey-really-hurt-whole-foods-wfmi/


77 posted on 08/26/2009 7:38:30 PM PDT by khnyny (Barack Obama and Chauncey Gardiner: separated at birth)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“I don’t know what to do!”

LOL..me either. Everything is upside down. Pretty soon it will be conservatives shopping at organic food stores and living in ‘communes’. We won’t be able to trust the ‘nationalized’ food sources(ie sterilization in the food or drinking water per orders from the commie czars) and we will have to establish capitalist communes in order to be free from tyranny.

Where is John Galt?

We know ‘who’ he is now...we just can’t find ‘him’!!

On another note...we conservatives are still all pretty much ‘together’...meanwhile the commie left is beginning to eat their own.

Pass the popcorn....


78 posted on 08/26/2009 7:39:53 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Right Wing Assault

Their cookies all taste like straw...keep that in mind while making your decision.;)


79 posted on 08/26/2009 9:35:25 PM PDT by 444Flyer (Never give up, never give out, never give in.)
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To: harpu

Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin, Texas, when four local businesspeople decided the natural foods industry was ready for a supermarket format. Our founders were John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy, owners of Safer Way Natural Foods, and Craig Weller and Mark Skiles, owners of Clarksville Natural Grocery. The original Whole Foods Market opened in 1980 with a staff of only 19 people. It was an immediate success. At the time, there were less than half a dozen natural food supermarkets in the United States. We have grown by leaps and bounds since our first store opened.


80 posted on 08/27/2009 12:46:11 PM PDT by Jaded (No act of kindness, no matter how small, ever goes unpunished. -HFG)
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