United Food & Commercial Workers Union

Affiliated SuperPACs: United Food And Commercial Workers International Union Working Families Advocacy Project

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's June 30, 2012 filing. independent expenditures updated daily.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $11,632,203
    Total Spent:
    $11,144,006
    Cash on Hand:
    $2,714,964
    Debts:
    $0

  • Independent Expenditures

    money spent supporting or opposing a candidate
    Candidate Support/Oppose Total Spent
    Barack Obama
    Support
    		 $264,702
    George Allen
    Oppose
    		 $240,000
    Mitt Romney
    Oppose
    		 $154,768
    Sherrod Brown
    Support
    		 $110,000
    Josh Mandel
    Oppose
    		 $68,547

  • Top Contributors

    top donors giving over $100,000

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    Individuals
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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for United Food & Commercial Workers Union Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$640,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of United Food & Commercial Workers Union

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    United Food & Commercial Workers Union $640,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Food Industry,
    • Taxes,
    • Trade,
    • Finance,
    • Immigration,
    • Health Issues,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Homeland Security
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    S.1310 Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011
    H.R.1883 Investing in U.S. Territories, Not Corporations Act of 2011
    H.R.2125 Electronic Paycard Protection Act of 2011
    S.986 Investing in U.S. Territories, Not Corporations Act of 2011
    S.1157 Foodborne Illness Reduction Act of 2011
    S.1619 Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act of 2011
    H2 Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
    H.R.2164 Legal Workforce Act
    H.R.2460 Creating and Restoring U.S. Investment and Stimulating Employment Act
    H.R.2587 Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act
View all lobbying data for United Food & Commercial Workers Union Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 2 dockets
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "United Food & Commercial Workers Union" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.