It has been surmised that the UFCW union had a hand in helping ABC's smear Food Lion's Image. The UFCW has had a grudge with Food Lion ever since they had a union campaign that flopped. The workers at Food Lion were making more in wages than the unionized workers under the UFCW. The Food Lion employees didn't see the need to pay union dues.
This was an embarrassment for the union and beginning of a campaign to hurt Food Lion financially. They wanted to punish Food Lion because it's employees refused to unionize. They found their opportunity through ABC studio's when they gave them an idea of a story that involved a supermarket chain selling spoiled meat. They also supplied an on-camera interview pool consisting of seven persons. These were employees that had stopped working at Food Lion but were actively suing the market chain with the help of UFCW.
The smear campaign hurt Food Lion and at the same time helped it's competitors that were unionized under the UFCW. This helped to strengthen the union and increase it's membership.
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