The following is a quote from a letter from a former President of Farmers Insurance Group in response to a UFAA members' letter that alleged that someone on the Management Team threatened someone with termination for being involved with the UFAA.
 
" I categorically deny that anyone in our Management has threatened anyone in the agency force with termination because of involvement with the UFAA.  As you know perfectly well, no one has ever been terminated for this reason. Management policy recognizes that our agents have a perfect right, under the constitution, to associate with each other in any way they see fit."
 
As members of the UFAA we would like to know why management personnel in some areas are requesting to have a list of the UFAA members in their area? If a former President of Farmers Insurance Group has agreed that the UFAA members have their protected constitutional rights to associate with each other in any way they see fit, why is Farmers current management interested in which agents belong to the UFAA? The UFAA has never asked management for a list of their 15,000 agents. If you feel you have been harassed by your DM, DMM or any other person representing Farmers Insurance because you are a UFAA member we suggest you contact your local UFAA Chapter President or the UFAA National Office ASAP. 
 
Have you visited www.farmersinsuranceagent.com? Read Mr. Feinstein's welcome and then use the drop down on the left side of the Home page and go to Why Farmers. The third paragraph reads that you'll be in business for YOURSELF making YOUR OWN day-to-day business decisions... Further down you will read that YOU WILL BE YOUR OWN BOSS... YOU will have the latitude to set YOUR OWN professional goals and make the day to day decisions to help YOU achieve those goals...Your agency's growth will be dependent on YOUR OWN CREATIVE ABILITY...NO BOSS...Move to the Depend on Farmers section and read the Other Benefits paragraph. Does that section read as if Farmers is allowing agents to ENJOY the PERKS and BENEFITS as if Farmers is paying for the benefits? Is it a benefit if you are paying for the greatest portion of it? When you tell your CSR that a certain paid holiday day off is a perk and benefit do you ask him/her to contribute to the cost of having the PAID day off?
 
If the www.farmersinsuranceagent.com home page is the IN-DEPTH TRUTH to be a persuasive tool to recruit new agents and you are your own boss and make your own business decisions and your Agent Appointment Agreement has no production requirements within it, we at the UFAA want to know why career agents are being DARGed and given production requirements? WHO'S THE BOSS? What is fact and what is fiction?  Who can we trust?  Is the AAA a fair deal for the agent?
 
The UFAA is currently in the process of gathering information from members and non-members who have or are having an attorney help them with any type of legal action against Farmers Insurance Group. The UFAA has a forum at our National Convention where these attorneys can openly share and exchange information pertaining to their legal activities with Farmers. If your attorney is interested in joining several other attorneys representing Farmers agents from across the country please have him/her contact the UFAA National Office @ 800-275-8668 to make arrangements to participate in this educational and informative experience.
 
 
 
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