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2026 Fall General Membership Meeting: November 2-5

Receive a credit of two-thirds of one month's dues when you attend a GMM meeting!

Join a GMM from anywhere! On November 4, call into a Telephonic General Membership Meeting

Wednesday, November 4, 9am
Attendee Phone Number: 888-652-2664
Meeting ID: 9419
Wednesday, November 4, 7pm
Attendee Phone Number:
 888-652-5403
Meeting ID: 9420

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Aberdeen

Wednesday, November 4 at 1pm
Harbor Regional Health: Conference Room B-Ground Floor, 915 Anderson Dr, Aberdeen, WA 98520

Bellevue

Tuesday, November 3 at 7pm
Hampton Inn & Suites: Pike Place Meeting Room, 11405 NE 2nd Place, Bellevue, WA 98004

Bellingham

Tuesday, November 3 at 4pm
Community to Community: Development Room,
1319 Cornwall Ave, Suite 101, Bellingham WA 98225

Centralia

Monday, November 2 at 7pm
Peppermill Inn, 1233 Alder St, Centralia, WA 98531

Chelan

Tuesday, November 3 at 12pm
Campbell’s Resort on Lake Chelan: Monfort Boardroom, 104 W Woodin Ave, Chelan, WA 98816

Clarkston

Thursday, November 5 at 5pm
Holiday Inn Clarkston-Lewiston:
Riverboat Room, 700 Port Dr, Clarkston, WA 99403

Coeur d’Alene

Tuesday, November 3 at 7pm
Holiday Inn Express Suites, 2300 W Seltice Way, Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814

Colville

Tuesday, November 3 at 2:30pm
Colville Public Library, 195 S Oak St,
Colville, WA 98114

Des Moines

Wednesday, November 4 at 10am & 7pm
UFCW 3000 Des Moines Office, 23040 Pacific
Highway South, Des Moines, WA 98198

Ellensburg

Wednesday, November 4 at 6pm
Hampton Inn Ellensburg: Boardroom, 2705 Triple L Loop, Ellensburg, WA 98926

Everett

Tuesday, November 3 at 10:30am
Best Western Cascadia Inn: Enchantment Room,
2800 Pacific Ave, Everett WA 98201

Hermiston

Monday, November 2 at 6pm
Holiday Inn Express, 245 N 1st St, Hermiston, OR 97838

Kennewick/Richland/Pasco

Wednesday, November 4 at 12pm & 6pm
UFCW 3000 Tri-Cities Office, 2505 Duportail St, Suite D, Richland, WA 99352

La Grande

Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm & 7pm
Island City City Hall: Community Room, 10605 Island Ave, Island City, OR 97850

Lynnwood

Tuesday, November 3 at 1pm & 5pm
Best Western Alderwood - Snohomish, 19332 36th Ave W, Lynnwood, WA 98036

Moses Lake

Tuesday, November 3 at 7pm
Holiday Inn Express & Suites, 2300 Maiers Rd, Moses Lake, WA 98837

Mt. Vernon

Monday, November 2 at 6pm
UFCW 3000 Mt Vernon Office, 1510 N 18th St, Mount Vernon, WA 98273

Newport

Thursday, November 5 at 5:30pm
Create, 900 W 4th St, Newport WA 99156

Oak Harbor

Monday, November 2 at 2pm
The Best Western Plus Oak Harbor Hotel & Conference Center: Oak Harbor Room, 33175 State Rte 20, Oak Harbor, WA 98277

Olympia *New Location

Monday, November 2 at 2pm
Providence St. Peter Hospital: Nisqually Room (2nd Floor by the Lab), 413 Lilly Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98506

Pendleton *New Location

Tuesday, November 3 at 6pm
Pendleton Convention Center: Little Vert, 345 SW Fourth St, Pendleton, OR 97801

Port Angeles

Thursday, November 5 at 1pm
Red Lion Port Angeles: Peninsula Room, 221 N Lincoln St Port Angeles 98362

Port Townsend

Thursday, November 5 at 10am
Port Townsend Community Center, 620 Tyler St,
Port Townsend, WA 98368

Seattle (North)

Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm & 7pm
Phinney Ridge Community Center - Room 3 (Blue Building, upstairs), 6532 Phinney Ave N Seattle, WA 98103

Seattle (South)

Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm & 7pm
Seattle Labor Temple: UFCW 3000 Yellow Room,
5030 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134

Silverdale

Wednesday, November 4 at 9am & 5pm
UFCW 3000 Silverdale Office, 2430 NW Myhre Road #101, Silverdale, WA 98383

Spokane

Wednesday, November 4 at 8am & 1pm & 5pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office, 2805 N Market St, Spokane, WA 99207

Tacoma

Tuesday, November 3 at 9am & 5pm
First United Methodist Church - Room 215 (Library), 621 Tacoma Ave S, Tacoma, WA 98402

Tonasket

Tuesday, November 5 at 6pm
Community Cultural Center: Front Room, 411 S. Western Ave, Tonasket, WA 98855

Toppenish *New Time

Thursday, November 5 at 3:30pm
Yakama Nation Cultural Center - 14 Tribes Room, 100 Spiel-yi Loop, Toppenish, WA 98948

Walla Walla

Wednesday, November 4 at 6pm
Best Western Plus, 7 E Oak St, Walla Walla, WA 99362

Wenatchee

Monday, November 2 at 5pm
UFCW 3000 Wenatchee Office, 330 King St, Suite 4, Wenatchee, WA 98801

Yakima

Wednesday, November 4 at 12pm
UFCW 3000 Yakima Office, 507 S 3rd St, Yakima, WA 98901

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UFCW 3000

We are the Union. The members of UFCW 3000 are over 50,000 members working in grocery, retail, health care, meat packing, cannabis, & other industries across Washington state, north-east Oregon, and northern Idaho. UFCW 3000 is a chartered member of UFCW International with over 1.4 million workers in North America.

To build a powerful Union that fights for economic, political and social justice in our workplaces and in our communities.

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Correcting the Record: Decades after Organizing Her Own Unit, Leslie Ball Is Still Fighting for Her Coworkers

Leslie Ball, a certified surgical technologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a longtime UFCW 3000 Union Steward, has spent decades standing up for herself and her coworkers.

Her fight for better working conditions began in the late 1990s, when she received a 30-cent wage increase, which ended up only being a five-cent raise after her employer reduced her shift differential by a quarter. With years of experience and a deep understanding of the value surgical techs bring to the table, she knew a nickel wasn’t going to cut it. So she and a coworker, Gail Miller, started organizing their colleagues at St. Joe's despite warnings that previous organizing efforts had failed.

Within a year, they helped Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and other departments form the hospital’s first Technical Unit, which ratified its first contract in 1999.

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Member Story: Silverdale Produce Clerk Tiiu Napp Finally Feels at Home 
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Jenny C., a transporter at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, knows what it looks like when management hopes a problem will just go away.

Jenny has watched the facility's transport elevators malfunction for more than a year, filing report after report after each incident she witnessed. Supervisors did not appear to take these complaints seriously.

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