April 2, 2025 marks UFCW 3000’s quasquicentennial, a word so fancy that nobody quite knows how to say it. Regardless of how you pronounce it, the absurdly Latinate term means we’ve been around for 125 years. During that time, we’ve grown from a crew of nine butchers in downtown Seattle to the largest private-sector union in the Pacific Northwest, representing more than 56,000 workers in grocery, retail, food processing, health care, laundry and textiles, cannabis, and others industries.   

In this week’s meetings with Kroger and Albertsons/Safeway, our member-led Bargaining Team heard the first staffing proposal from Kroger. Unfortunately, their proposal fell well short of what we need to ensure safe stores for workers and customers.  

The LMC’s purpose is to study and make recommendations to the BOT (or PCC’s Leadership Team, as appropriate based on the nature of the recommendation), for action on those matters on which it deliberates. Our focus will be on addressing important matters such as labor, staffing and workplace improvements, training needs and profit-sharing structures.

Only days after Kroger’s CEO resigned for unknown ethical reasons, our bargaining team faced Kroger bargainers who seem hell-bent on stripping away workers’ rights.

On March 5 and 6, our Bargaining Team met with Safeway and passed proposals on staffing and scheduling, retail theft, immigration protections, PPE and safety, and other non-economic items.

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

Last week, our union and Teamsters 38 held a webinar to discuss our proposals to ensure better staffing at grocery stores across the region.

“Now is the time for the changes we have been pushing for: Kroger should stop investing in failed tech and mergers and instead invest in stores and communities with lower prices, more stores, and workers with better staffing and better wages,”

The key to our success is staying unified and continuing to fight for better wages, better staffing, and better stores.

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

After nearly six months of bargaining with Albertson/Safeway and Kroger for a new contract that respects our work, increases our wages, and improves our retirement and healthcare, we are holding a contract vote! This notice serves to inform all members that we will be holding contract vote meetings on February 19, 20, 21 and 25.

After months of bargaining with Rosauers for a new contract that respects our work, increases our wages, and improves our sick leave, bereavement leave, and vacation. We are holding a contract vote!

On February 3 & 4, our Bargaining Team met with the Employers and focused on sharing stories about the impacts of low staffing on our workplaces.

When Jessica Foster was told that she couldn’t leave the floral department at the North Bend QFC without having her payrate lowered, she contacted her union representative and pursued a grievance to protect her pay and further her career.

On Friday, January 24, our Bargaining Team met with Management for our second bargaining session. We are very pleased to announce that we arrived at Tentative Agreements for both the grocery and meat contracts that the team can fully recommend "YES" votes in favor of ratification!

Our Bargaining Team met January 21 and 22 to share our core concerns with the Employers. We focused on major issues like addressing under-staffing, U-SCAN usage, and store safety. We will begin to work on our wage, pension, and healthcare proposals with the goal of putting all our issues on the table in March.

After months of bargaining, we have ratified a new 3-year contract with many amazing improvements including…

After nearly six months of bargaining with Albertson/Safeway and Kroger for a new contract that respects our work, increases our wages, and improves our retirement and healthcare, we are holding a contract vote! This notice serves to inform all members that a critical membership meeting will be held on January 9, 10, 13.

Thomas Nelson has been working at Safeway in Spokane in April of this year. He comes from a family with a strong union back ground, and so he decided to become a shop steward to help his coworkers and make sure they know about their rights on the job!

Since the beginning of November, Management has only been available for a few short bargaining sessions. This has been challenging. We need Management to come to the table and spend a full day with us bargaining. We are willing to work as long and hard as it takes to get a contract we can recommend to you!