Join the Fresh Food for All Movement

Food deserts aren't a natural phenomenon. Giant grocery store corporations create them when they starve our neighborhood stores to feed Wall Street shareholders. 

By closing six full-service stores in Puget Sound right before the holidays, Kroger, the Cincinnati-based corporation that owns Fred Meyer and QFC, wants to leave our working-class communities high and dry.

We won't stand for it.

In response to these closures and to rising corporate greed, we've launched our Fresh Food for All campaign, a new vision for the grocery industry that puts people first. We aim to make sure every family has access to fresh, affordable groceries in safe, well-staffed stores.

Right now, we're sitting at the table with grocery store workers, community organizations, and elected officials to discuss policies that will realize this vision. 

A Food Justice Vision for Washington

• Public-Option Grocery Stores: To protect our neighborhoods, Washington should support public-private partnership grocery stores to keep food affordable and accessible for all.

• Grocery-Oriented Development Zones (GODZ): Pair new workforce housing with full-service grocery stores, reserving some units for workers who rely on SNAP/WIC.

• Ban Surge and Surveillance Pricing: No more secret algorithms that jack up food prices in real time. Families deserve stable grocery bills, not digital discrimination.

• Ban Digital-Only Coupons: Discounts shouldn’t be locked behind smartphones, inaccessible to the elderly and low-income shoppers.

• Mass Layoff Protections: Washington should set the standard for worker justice. We must require 90 days’ notice for mass layoffs and severance pay for displaced workers.

Act Now

• SIGN UP: Sign our petition to join the movement to protect workers, eliminate food deserts, and ensure fresh, affordable food for all. 

• SPEAK UP: RSVP to our Fresh Food for All Community Town Hall on Saturday, September 20 from 2-4 pm at the Seattle Labor Temple to help identify concrete ways to fight back against food deserts and to protect workers and shoppers. 

UFCW 3000 Launches Fresh Food for All Campaign, Endorses Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor

UFCW 3000, Washington State’s largest labor union, proudly endorses Katie Wilson for Mayor of Seattle.

“Our members stock the shelves, staff the hospitals, and serve every neighborhood in this city,” UFCW Executive Board Member and Ballard QFC Cashier Amy Dayley Angell, “Katie Wilson has marched with us on the picket line and fought off corporate bullies to raise wages for all working people, so we know she’s ready to take on the big battles to make Seattle affordable for everyone.”

Wilson shares our goal of building an affordable city where people can live near their workplaces without breaking the bank and get where they need to go quickly and reliably.

We also stand with Wilson in the effort to create a fairer tax code, one that balances more of the load on wealthy corporations rather than working-class people.

And in the wake of four scheduled Fred Meyer closures in our region, we’re glad to know that the next mayor of Seattle stands with us as we launch our Fresh Food for All campaign, which will make food deserts bloom with fresh, affordable produce and prevent grocery giants from stomping all over our communities.

A Food Justice Vision for Seattle

• Mass Layoff Protections – Seattle should set the standard for worker justice. We must require 90 days’ notice for mass layoffs and severance pay for displaced workers.

• Grocery-Oriented Development Zones (GODZ) – Pair new workforce housing with full-service grocery stores, reserving some units for workers who rely on SNAP/WIC.

• Public-Option Grocery Stores – Food deserts aren’t a natural phenomenon. They occur when giant grocery corporations abandon working-class communities in search of higher profits. To protect our neighborhoods, Seattle should support public-private partnership grocery stores to keep food affordable and accessible for all.

• Ban Surge and Surveillance Pricing – No more secret algorithms that jack up food prices in real time. Families deserve stable grocery bills, not digital discrimination.

• Ban Digital-Only Coupons – Discounts shouldn’t be locked behind smartphones, inaccessible to the elderly and low-income shoppers.

We’re urging every elected official to work with us to pass these common-sense protections for workers and communities.

And this November, we’re urging every Seattle voter to stand with us and elect Katie Wilson as our next Mayor.