As a part of the 2025 grocery settlement, our Union Bargaining Team prioritized addressing staffing and scheduling issues in our stores. Many other grocery stores now have an agreement to provide sales, labor, and volume data to our Union in order to monitor hours at each Employer.

On Jan 26 and 27, our member-led Bargaining Team returned to the table with PCC and made progress on many non-economic issues.

On Thursday January 29, our Bargaining Team met with management for our second session of contract negotiations. We delivered our response to the Employer’s initial proposals and came to tentative agreements on several language issues that will allow us to narrow down and focus on wages, health care and pension.

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On Jan 20, our member-led Bargaining Team came to the table expecting meaningful progress. However, PCC only moved a few half-steps forward. They proposed:

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.

On Jan 14, our member-led Bargaining Team came to the table expecting a response to the proposals we delivered last session. Unfortunately, PCC was not ready to respond

On January 14, our Bargaining Team met with Uwajimaya for the first time for contract negotiations. We put forward several proposals which would recognize the premium work done in our meat departments compared to mainstream grocery stores. These proposal included:

Now it is our turn to vote! Our union member-led bargaining team reached a tentative agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employer.

Now it is our turn to vote! Our union member-led bargaining team reached a tentative agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employer.

Our union member Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employers.

On December 17, our member-led Bargaining Team sat across the table from PCC, united and ready to hear their response to the proposals we delivered last session. But when they slid their counter-proposals across the table, they fell short of our needs. To be frank, we witnessed rejection after rejection after rejection.

Our bargaining committee knows that our coworkers need their raises this holiday season and we want Metropolitan Market to stop dragging their feet on reaching a tentative agreement and allow us to schedule a contract ratification vote.  

Our contract negotiations with PCC are heating up. In back-to-back sessions on December 9 and 10, our member-led Bargaining Team delivered most of our proposals, including:

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.

As we navigate these adverse weather effects, please remember there are resources and rights through our union and through our communities that can help.  

On December 5, new Jefferson county and Clallam county grocery and meat contracts were ratified! 

Big congratulations to the inaugural graduating class of the WeTrain Washington Spokane Meatcutter Apprenticeship Program! 

Join your coworkers at a monthly Contract Action Team meeting—Let’s stay organized to win.

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.