UFCW 3000 Member Story: Annie and Sarah

Annie Walton (left) and Sarah Tran Lau

Annie Walton and Sarah Tran Lau are both new union stewards at Kaiser Permanente working at the Renton Admin Building that holds the regional lab. Sarah and Annie, after working behind the scenes on vital lab work, became fed up with wages continuing to be below market. With the support of UFCW 3000, Sarah and Annie organized with their coworkers about the issue, wrote a petition for higher wages, and got over 80% of their lab coworkers across KP WA to sign on. Through this action, they've learned a lot about how to organize in their workplace.

When they delivered the petition, they included testimony from lab workers across the state, a video with support from UFCW3000 KP stewards in other job classifications, and community ally support. Since then KP has committed to making wage adjustments for job classifications way behind, which we know would include the laboratory workers. We hope Kaiser will do the right thing...sooner rather than later!