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Union split grows as UFCW packinghouse chief Lewie Anderson is fired
The Gazette reports Lewie Anderson, head of UFCW packinghouse division and Cedar Rapids native, was fired amid an internal dispute over division leadership. President William Wynn cited lost trust. Phil Immesote named potential replacement as union faces industry wage shifts and factional tensions among clerks and packinghouse workers.
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Dale Kueter
Lewie Anderson
United Food and Commercial Workers
the Gazette
Anderson
Cedar Rapids
UFCW
William Wynn
Phil Immesote
Illinois-Wisconsin
Missouri
Afl-Cio
Wynn
Clerks Union
Clerks
Washington
Jim Coleman
P-3
Coleman
Midwest Packinghouse
IBP
Joslin
Ill
Packinghouse
Excel
Ottumwa
Beardstown
Albert Lea
Minn
Austin
Dallas
Hormel
Quality Park
Acker
McDonald’s
Jim Lyons
Sioux Falls
S.C
Gary Ferock
United Packinghouse Workers