I need to clarify my statement above when I said John Heise wasn't that smart of a guy.  He was smarter than his dad Larry who was a really really stupid man...but they were equally, in my opinion, really dishonest people as the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree...as they say.

Below is a recent monthly UFCW newsletter and this particular edition explains the Union's trust fund pension situation:

Click on the image above to open a pdf file so you can read how dire this pension fund is in. The pension fund has been in dire condition for many years but it is getting to the point where I believe it will end up being under the control of the PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation), and eventually the taxpapers will be on the hook to pick up the tab for the mismanagement of the members dues and investments...and the retirees and the non retiree members will see a reduction to their monthly pensions.  Maybe this is why John Heise, who isn't qualified in my opinion to get a job at a fast food chain, gives himself a $30,000 raise for 2023.  Is he panicking because he didn't pocket enough millions of dollars while employed at this union while masquerading around as a top notch officer of the union?  LOL  Why can't a courtesy clerk in a grocery store just give themselves a $30,000 raise for the year when they feel like it?  

Here is my concern about all of this:  If the union membership totals are declining every year, and by looking at the salaries being given to the employees at this union who are being paid by the dues from union members, then why isn't John Heise, thief Jaques Loveall and other high paid crooks at this union earning their big paychecks by canvassing Northern California to get more union-dues-paying-members signed up so that there is more money in the trust fund so that the pension fund will be shored up and provide the pensions promised to retirees while they were working?

And one more concern:  Why hasn't the corrupt Department of Labor done its job to make sure that unions like this corrupt union have an honest election every three years.  The Loveall's have been in control of this union for 45 years and have never given their members a ballot to vote for their leadership. The last time there was a possibility of an election, Jack Loveall sent out his goons to chase a candidate around in their vehicles to try and intimidate him and his family.  Then when that intimidation process didn't work they went to another undemocratic tactic by going around to the stores and getting members to remove their names from his petition that they signed (which was required), telling the members that an election wasn't needed because everything was under control at UFCW 588.  Do you know how long it took to get those required signatures from the members? 

Here is the kicker: Jack Loveall and his buddy crooks at this union didn't spend any of their time getting signatures which would have meant that if they didn't get the members to remove their signatures from Jack Nordby's petition, they would have lost this election because they themselves were required to get signatures to have their name placed on the ballot and these fucking lazy fat crooks at UFCW 588  weren't going to do that.  Then their friends at the fucking corrupt Department of Labor gave Jack Loveall their stamp of appoval by stating that what these union crooks at 588 did during the election process wouldn't have changed the outcome of the election...this is what the corrupt DOL will say any time there is corruption going on during an election.  How can you have any outcome to an election when there never was an election that actually took place but should have taken place?

You see, when you intimidate the entire union membership, no one will ever have a desire to run for a union position, so to satisfy the DOL 3-year election requirement they can just tell the DOL that nobody came forward to run for any union office and therefore all of us crooks at this union won by acclamation. 
Hey DOL, it's a miracle, nobody has ever challenged these crooks.  This is the same thing the corrupt democrats are doing to Donald Trump.  Not only are they trying to destroy his life, but they are also creating an atmosphere of intimination so that nobody ever challenges them again in an election because they want you to be forwarned as this same nonsense will happen to you too when you do.

In 1997, these crooks knew that Jack Nordby and Frank Nordby wanted these fucking crooks out and they knew with an honest election their asses would be voted out and we were going to eliminate the union office employees/officers outrageous salaries, provide honest and fair representation to the members and at the same time provide transparency.