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!
Read MoreAfter 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! This notice serves to inform all members that a critical contract vote meeting will be held on February 4 for members covered by the Rosauers Spokane Grocery and Spokane Meat contracts and on February 6 for members covered by the Rosauers Lewiston Grocery & Meat contract.
The Bargaining Team will present the tentative agreement received from the Employer. Members will have the opportunity to discuss the terms and implications of the offer before voting on the fully recommended settlement.
Any member covered by the Rosauers Spokane Grocery and Spokane Meat contracts or the Rosauers Lewiston Grocery & Meat contract that are in good standing are encouraged to attend a meeting, ask questions, and vote on their contract. Contact a Bargaining Team member or your Union Representative for any questions!
February 4, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office
2805 N. Market St. Spokane, WA 99207
February 6, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hampton Inn Lewiston
2701 Nez Perce Dr, Lewiston, ID 83501
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.
Read MoreYour coworker-led bargaining committee met with Rosauers on January 8 and 9 and reached a fully recommended settlement with some great improvements.
We will send dates out soon!
Highlights from the new agreement:
Significant above-area grocery standard wage increases.
New pay scales for improving Appendix B, C, and D wage classifications.
Added pension benefits as well as improved vacation and benefit language.
An improved meat cutter apprenticeship program will be implemented to secure longevity in the industry and protect Meat Department work.
Improvements to sick leave, bereavement leave, vacation, and other benefits.
Improved opportunities for more Rosauers employees to join and grow the strength of our union for future negotiations.
After months of bargaining, we have ratified a new 3-year contract with many amazing improvements including…
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Pharmacy Technicians and Assistants at Rosauers grocery stores in Spokane Washington ratified their new contract this past Monday, December 23, 2024. They achieved significant pay increases, added security to their pension, and increased their vacation benefits. Congratulations.
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.
Read MoreThomas 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!
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Monday, December 23, 2024 @ 7:30pm
UFCW 3000 2805 N. Market St. Spokane WA 99207
Significant pay increases
Retirement security
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!
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Your coworker-led bargaining team met with Rosauers for the second bargaining session on December 9th and 10th. With our few Tentative Agreements, we would be able to have the option to cash out 5 vacation days if we are unable to use them due to the needs of the business. We would also be able to have the option to gift our vacation days to our coworkers who may need extra time off due to life-altering events.
We continued to propose livable wage increases with the high inflation we have all felt the effects of, but the company came back with wage proposals that were not sufficient to our team. Our coworker-led Bargaining Team is asking all of us to come together in solidarity and show Rosauers that these economic proposals are unacceptable. Please join us by wearing a button until we get the contract ratified and to show the company, we are going to continue this fight until we win!
UFCW Locals 7, 324, 770, 1564 and 3000
For Immediate Release: December 13, 2024 - 9 AM ET/6 AM PT
Contact: Tom Geiger, UFCW 3000, 206-604-3421
Seattle, WA - A day after failing in its bid to merge with Albertsons and dominate the traditional supermarket industry, Kroger abruptly announced a massive giveaway to shareholders—a $7.5 billion stock buyback, $5 billion of which is slated to be paid out on an accelerated timetable. The massive shareholder payout towers above the commitments the company had promised to reduce prices for consumers and to invest in wages during the recent merger fight. Flip-flopping in less than a day’s time from a strategy of aggressive growth through Albertson’s acquisition on Tuesday to one of dramatic downsizing through shedding $7.5 billion on Wednesday should be seen for what it seems to be - an attempt to buy shareholders’ mercy through a short-term boost to the stock price in order to save CEO Rodney McMullen’s job.
“At a time when our stores need significant investments in staffing, repairs and remodels and our customers need relief from high prices, it is outrageous that Rodney McMullen would try to distract attention from his multiple failures as CEO by announcing a massive one-time giveaway to shareholders,” said Kim Cordova, President of UFCW Local 7 in Colorado and Wyoming.
During the recent three trials to block the merger, Kroger officials repeatedly expressed concern that rising competition from Amazon, Walmart and other nontraditional retailers represented an “existential” threat to Kroger’s market share. Within hours of that merger’s failure, it appears that Mr. McMullen’s first substantive action—apart from deciding to sue Albertsons—is to fleece $7.5 billion from the company’s treasury instead of making investments that would build market share. This $7.5 billion is on top the nearly $1 billion the Company already wasted on the failed merger. Apparently, in McMullen’s view, the threats to Kroger’s survival are not so great that the company needs these resources.
What could a competent CEO do with $7.5 billion? At the most basic level, these funds could be used to: 1) invest in lower prices for consumers, making Kroger more price competitive; 2) invest in higher wages and more staffing to reduce turnover; 3) remedy chronically empty shelves; and, 4) provide better customer service. The $7.5 billion in share buybacks announced Wednesday are approximately 10 times the value of the promised investments in price reductions the company had said it would make if the merger were approved. The Company made a similar billion-dollar commitment to invest in wages. Workers know all too well just how badly needed these additional wages and hours are for the stores’ operations, and how they would allow the company to grow its market share.
What else could a competent executive do to grow market share? They could do what Amazon, Walmart, Costco and Trader Joe’s have done: build new stores. Those other retailers have consistently grown their grocery store count each year over the past decade, but there are fewer Kroger stores today than there were in January of 2016. How many new Kroger stores could $7.5 billion buy? Based on an average pre-tax cost of $35 million per store, Kroger could build 280 new combination stores (such as Ralphs, King Soopers or QFC) each with an average square footage of 71,000 sq ft, for a total of approximately 20 million new square feet—the equivalent of over 1,300 Trader Joe’s stores, about 2.2 times as many Trader Joe’s as currently exist.
What could $7.5 billion buy?
New stores: 280
Store remodels: 3,268*
Discounts per loyal household: $158.13
New FTEs: 125,691
New FTEs per store: 46
New FTE's per store for 3 yrs: 15.4
* This is actually larger than the total number of stores currently operated by Kroger.
“These stores are part of our community—millions of consumers shop there for their families' food, and hundreds of thousands of union members work there. These billions could be used to improve our food supply, reduce prices, reduce food deserts and more,” said Kathy Finn, President of UFCW 770 in Southern California. “That money is not a personal piggy bank that Rodney McMullen can raid in order to save his job.”
“As the president of a local union that represents 11,700 Kroger workers, I don’t take lightly the decision to call for the replacement of the company’s CEO, but Rodney McMullen has mismanaged this company so badly there is no other way forward,” said Faye Guenther, President of UFCW 3000 in Washington State. “It was under his leadership that the company decided to attack its union members by cutting staffing by double-digit percentages, it was under his leadership that the decision was made to invest in the automated Ocado warehouse boondoggle, and it was under his leadership that both companies wasted the last two years and nearly $1 billion pursuing a doomed merger. It’s past time for him to go.”
Following yesterday’s court rulings blocking the proposed Kroger and Albertsons mega-merger, we welcome Albertsons’ decision to terminate the merger transaction, meaning there will be no further court appeals seeking to complete the merger. We encourage the leaders of both Kroger and Albertsons to invest resources in their stores by investing in adequate staffing so customers are better served and workers can safely and effectively operate the stores and stock the shelves. These investments will result in higher sales and improved satisfaction by shoppers and employees alike.
Read More“The well-reasoned decisions today by both Courts make plain what union grocery workers have known all along – this mega-merger would be bad for workers who deserve a workplace where they can be paid well for their labor, be safe and be respected. It would be disastrous for shoppers who deserve competition that leads to better choices and lower prices…”
Read MoreWith the rising costs of living, many people are watching every penny and every paycheck, budgeting with dwindling means and having to choose what necessities to prioritize. Unions are in the fight for improving living conditions through better wages and benefits. Two UFCW 3000 grocery store members recently experienced the benefits of their union backing when they discovered issues with their pay.
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On Tuesday at 6, we will be updating our Puget Sound grocery store members and discussing plans for the upcoming 2025 collective bargaining process to win improvements in our next contract. When your phone rings answer and you will join the call. Our partners in negotiations Teamsters 38, which represents grocery store workers in Snohomish County, will also be on the call with us. We will take your questions live.
With over 25,000 members to call it does take a few minutes to dial everyone, but if for some reason you have not received your call by 6:05, you can still join us by dialing: 888-652-2664 and entering meeting ID: 8278.
One of the big wins we got was Workforce Development, which is the meat apprenticeship program that is accredited with the state. Another big win was our Strong Safety Language for the first time ever in our contract. This allows the workplace safety committees to recommend trainings for each workplace and topics for the master safety committee.
Read MoreAs we navigate these adverse weather effects, please remember there are resources and rights through our union and through our communities that can help.
Read MoreFor over a year the opposition grew. Press conferences, a US Senate hearing, meetings with state and federal regulators, hundreds of TV, newspaper and radio stories, actions by workers at their stores, and much more. Many months of investigation led to a series of lawsuits being filed in early 2024.
Read MoreWe 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.
