Our Union has been in negotiations with Metropolitan Market since our fellow union members at Safeway, Fred Meyer, QFC, and Albertsons (“Allied”) ratified their contract earlier this year in June. Recently, our Bargaining Team met with Metropolitan Market representatives on November 24 to have further discussions regarding the grocery contract proposals. On November 7, meat managers throughout Metropolitan Market met with employer representatives to work on our meat agreement.

Contract Vote Scheduled!

On Friday, November 21, our member-led Bargaining Team sat across the table from PCC for the second time in this contract cycle. We delivered our first round of proposals, which included weekly guaranteed hours, the creation of a centralized scheduler position to improve our shift-bidding system, additional discounts for staff, a limitation on sub-contracting deli, cut fruit, and meat products, plus language on racial justice trainings and immigration protections.

Join your coworkers to prepare for upcoming negotiations and how to win a fair contract! If you have any questions, please call your Union Representative.

After months of negotiations, leafleting, info-picketing, a 97% strike authorization vote in June, and ratification votes from grocery store workers in many Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores, our Union Bargaining Team harnessed all that power from thousands of grocery workers to fight and win a fair contract.

On Wednesday, November 5 our member-led Bargaining Team sat across the table from PCC for the first time this contract cycle. After introducing ourselves to the Employer, we discussed the outcomes from our bargaining survey, named our priorities for this bargain, and built solidarity within our team. Talk to the Bargaining Team member in your store for more detailed information!

It has come to the Union’s attention that the contractual raises, for the following contracts Albertsons - Lewiston/Clarkston (Grocery and Meat), Albertsons - Coeur d’Alene (Meat), Albertsons - Coeur d’Alene/Hayden Lake (Grocery), Albertsons - Hayden Lake (Meat), Safeway - Coeur d’Alene (Grocery and Meat), and Safeway - Pullman/Moscow (Grocery and Meat) which were scheduled to take effect on October 12, 2025, and reflect on your paycheck of Oct 24, 2025, have not yet been implemented.

Thank you to all the active union members who participated in the nomination and advisory vote at every PCC store location! 

Join your coworkers to prepare for upcoming negotiations and how to win a fair contract! If you have any questions, please call your Union Representative.

After historic votes in Western and Eastern WA grocery contracts. We have been able to define and limit the scope of work permitted by Third-Party Franchise in the produce department.

Union Contract Proposal Meeting!

On October 16, we ratified new contracts for UFCW 3000 grocery stores in Skagit, Island, and Whatcom Counties at Safeway, Haggen, Fred Meyer, and Albertsons/Safeway, and Saar’s Grocery in Oak Harbor.  

As we are preparing for upcoming contract negotiations with PCC, it’s time to elect our Bargaining Team!

We overwhelmingly ratified a new agreement at Fred Meyer Richland! Our combined strength with fellow grocery workers across the state established a unified expiration timeline in 2027 for tens of thousands of UFCW 3000 grocery workers bargaining at the same time.

These votes are open to all members of UFCW 3000 grocery stores in Skagit, Island, and Whatcom Counties at the big chains (Safeway, Haggen, Albertsons d/b/a Safeway in Oak Harbor, and Fred Meyer) and independent stores (The Market and Saar’s).  

On Friday, Sept 19, UFCW 3000 QFC grocery store workers under the King/Snohomish grocery, King/Kitsap meat, and Snohomish meat contracts ratified a Letter of Understanding (LOU) that allows displaced Fred Meyer members to retain their hard-earned union seniority and benefits if they accept open positions at QFC stores under those contracts.  

After months of negotiations and ratification votes from grocery workers across Eastern Washington and North Idaho, we are holding contract votes for Fred Meyer Richland on October 8 from 8AM to 12PM and 3PM to 7PM at our UFCW 3000 office in Richland at: 2505 Duportail St, Suite D, Richland, WA 99352-4079 

UFCW 3000 has reached a tentative Letter of Understanding (LOU) with Kroger regarding the placement of Fred Meyer employees into open positions at QFC stores if their Fred Meyer store has closed.