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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://medium.com/@MatthewTHunt/whole-foods-hired-far-right-wing-activist-as-union-buster-dd46bee7c854">https://medium.com/@MatthewTHunt/whole-foods-hired-far-right-wing-activist-as-union-buster-dd46bee7c854</a></font></div><div><p id="c8fc" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">documents from the <a class="au kn" href="https://olms.dol-esa.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=646059&rptForm=LM10Form" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards</a> show that Whole Foods Market hired the union busting company <a class="au kn" href="http://uskulture.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Kulture Consulting, LLC</a> back in 2016. According to the documents Whole Foods began an “oral” agreement with Kulture Consulting on May 23, 2016. The company was paid $109,246. Three days before a union <a class="au kn" href="https://www.nlrb.gov/case/12-RC-176657" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">election</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">was filed by the Chemical Production Workers Union Local №30 at a Whole Foods distribution center located at Pompano Beach in Florida. One document states that Kulture “presented informational meetings to company employees relative to the process of unionization, the role of the NLRB, and collective bargaining.”</span></font></p><p id="9b91" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whole Foods legal representation during the election was handled by a <a class="au kn" href="https://www.ebglaw.com/jeremy-m-brown/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Jeremy M. Brown</a> from <a class="au kn" href="https://www.ebglaw.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Epstein Becker & Green P.C.</a> On the law firms <a class="au kn" href="https://www.ebglaw.com/labor-management-relations/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">website</a> they list having experience “…representing private sector, not-for-profit, and government employers in all aspects of labor-management relations, including union organizing campaigns; union corporate campaigns; representation and decertification cases before the NLRB and state agencies.” The election ended in a defeat. Documents show the agreement with Kulture was terminated June 16, 2016 and payment was delivered on August 22nd of that year.</font></p><p id="f4f2" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Peter List is the founder and CEO of Kulture Consulting. List was part of a secretive group of far-right activists known as Groundswell. Behind the scenes <a class="au kn" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Groundswell’s mission</a> was to “…cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, <em class="ko" style="box-sizing: inherit;">and</em> the Republican establishment and ‘clueless’ GOP congressional leaders.” The group included people such as <a class="au kn" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.bnA2vML0lg#.tqvrxeX5ab" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Steve Bannon</a>, <a class="au kn" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/what-congress-can-do-to-check-a-war-mongering-lunatic/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">John Bolton</a>, <a class="au kn" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/clarence-thomas-is-moving-closer-to-the-trumpist-fringe-his-wife-ginni-is-already-there.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Virginia Thomas</a> and <a class="au kn" href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/frank-gaffney-jr" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Frank Gaffney Jr</a>. <b>List also runs the websites <a class="au kn" href="http://laborunionreport.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">laborunionreport.com</a> and <a class="au kn" href="http://workplacereport.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">workplacereport.com</a>. The websites are filled with anti-union propaganda, far-right wing politics and a clear admiration for Ayn Rand.</b></font></p><p id="2407" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the South Carolina Secretary of State List is also the registered agent at Kulture LLC, and Kulture Media LLC which was previously Labor Union Report LLC. The DOL documents show that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kulture Consulting’s union-busting raked in about <a class="au kn" href="https://olms.dol-esa.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=635827&rptForm=LM20Form" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">4.3 million dollars</a> in 2016 and <a class="au kn" href="https://olms.dol-esa.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=667820&rptForm=LM20Form" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">3.5 million</a> in 2017. The documents also show persons listed as employed by Kulture Consulting for the Whole Foods union busting, besides Peter List, as a <a class="au kn" href="https://olms.dol-esa.gov/query/orgReport.do?rptId=622431&rptForm=LM20Form" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">Ronn English and Luisa Perez</a>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ronn is listed as VP Western US Operations for Kulture, LLC on Linkedin.</span></font></p><p id="8911" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Whole Foods has long maintained that the company is not anti-union but non-union, and that they are beyond unions. Employees are known to be treated to a power-point presentation during their hiring or employment explaining why the company is non-union. A non-Black and non-LGBTQ business is clearly just racist, bigoted, homophobic and has no respect for civil rights. Whole Foods is not “non-union” it hates unions and hates workers’ rights.</font></p><p id="35db" class="pw-post-body-paragraph jp jq ih jr b js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km ia gi" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It should be no surprise that Whole Foods would hire a union-buster with such views considering John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, has long expressed his disdain for unions and love of far right economics. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mackey years back stated that “the union is like having herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">From a 2009 <a class="au kn" href="https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/john-mackeys-blog/health-care-reform-full-article" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;">blog post</a> Mackey wrote “…how can we say that all people have any more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have an intrinsic right to food, clothing, owning their own homes, a car or a personal computer?” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is safe to assume that it takes the average Whole Foods employee a lot longer than twenty four days to accumulate $109,246</span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/whole-foods-ceo-climate-change_n_2511482.html?view=print&comm_ref=false"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/whole-foods-ceo-climate-change_n_2511482.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><h1 class="title-news"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whole Foods CEO On Climate Change:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> John Mackey Says Warming Is 'Not Necessarily Bad'</span></font></h1><div class="comments_datetime_new border_none relative v05"><span class="posted-and-updated"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted: <span itemprop="datePublished">01/24/<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2013 </span></span></font></span></div><div class="entry_content"><div class="entry_body_text"><div class="float_left"><div class="articleBody" itemprop="articleBody"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Whole Foods CEO John Mackey <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-to-guardian-climate" target="hplink">shared his views on climate change</a> recently, saying that he is "not a 'climate change skeptic,'" but, contrary to the scientific consensus, suggested that "climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mackey, who founded the supermarket chain in 1980, told Mother Jones, "<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/whole-foods-market-john-mackey-interview-conscious-capitalism?page=2" target="hplink">climate change is clearly occurring</a>." He added, "What I am opposed to is trying to stop virtually all economic progress because of the fear of climate change." He suggested, "we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, the Biodiversity Chair of the H. John Heinz III Center, recently explained in The New York Times, "At current global warming of 0.8-0.9 degrees [Celsius], the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/opinion/global/the-climate-change-endgame.html" target="hplink">fingerprints of climate change can be seen virtually everywhere</a> in nature." He believes the internationally agreed upon warming limit of two degress Celsius "is actually too much for ecosystems." Lovejoy wrote, "The <a href="http://www.carbontracker.org/" target="hplink">Carbon Tracker</a> organization has examined fossil-fuel investments around the world (including 1,200 new coal plants) and determined that they would lead to a 6-degree world."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mackey later clarified his stance, <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/off-the-cuff/whole-foods-founder-says-global-warming-not-big-224803744.html" target="hplink">telling Yahoo! Finance</a>, "I guess my position on it is that I don't think that's that big a deal."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate advocacy group <a href="http://forecastthefacts.org/" target="hplink">Forecast the Facts</a> responded to Mackey's assertions, <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecastFacts/status/293501554596651009" target="hplink">tweeting</a>, "[Whole Foods] recognizes that #climate change is caused by CO2 pollution -- why doesn't CEO John Mackey?"</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his second inaugural address this week, President <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-president-barack-obama" target="hplink">Obama suggested that addressing climate change</a> is an important matter. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A recent study from the World Economic Forum found that "the world <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/curbing-climate-change-world-economic-forum_n_2521275.html" target="hplink">must spend an extra $700 billion a year</a>" to curb climate change, reported Reuters. This figure is in addition to five trillion dollars which is projected to be spent annually on global infrastructure projects through 2020.</font></p></div></div></div><p>
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