After months of difficult negotiations, a powerful informational picket, and an overwhelming strike authorization vote, our Union Bargaining Team fought late into the night on October 8 and reached a tentative agreement on a new contract!
The Nominations are in, now it’s time to vote for who will represent you and your coworkers from Ballard, Central District, and Issaquah PCCs on the newly formed PCC Labor Management Advisory Committee (LMAC). Secure online voting will take place Wednesday, October 21 from 8am to 8pm. Every PCC store elects one LMAC representative, you may only vote on a nominee from your own store.
Following a series of highly attended vote meetings on Monday, October 5, union technical workers at St. Joseph Medical Center voted nearly unanimously to:
Reject CommonSpirit’s subpar contract offer
Authorize a STRIKE
“We set the stage and gave our comprehensive proposal letting the employer know that our priorities are to win wages that we deserve, improve our transportation benefits, win immigration protection language as well as ensuring the safety of our co-workers. We are eager to see what BDA’s response is on the 21. ” -Kota Owens, Bargaining Team Member
For the first time in history, on Tuesday, Sept 29, grocery store workers from across Washington State and North Idaho met at the same table to plan for our upcoming bargaining session with Kroger and Albertsons.
Our team met with the employer again today to continue bargaining. We have finally started discussing economics, focusing on health care and wages, which we know are our members’ top priorities. We've seen very little movement from the employer and know we need to start escalating.
Correcting the Record: Decades after Organizing Her Own Unit, Leslie Ball Is Still Fighting for Her Coworkers
Leslie Ball, a certified surgical technologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a longtime UFCW 3000 Union Steward, has spent decades standing up for herself and her coworkers.
Her fight for better working conditions began in the late 1990s, when she received a 30-cent wage increase, which ended up only being a five-cent raise after her employer reduced her shift differential by a quarter. With years of experience and a deep understanding of the value surgical techs bring to the table, she knew a nickel wasn’t going to cut it. So she and a coworker, Gail Miller, started organizing their colleagues at St. Joe's despite warnings that previous organizing efforts had failed.
Within a year, they helped Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and other departments form the hospital’s first Technical Unit, which ratified its first contract in 1999.
Please lookout for a vote notice once we can confirm when the ratification vote will take place. Members will all have a chance to review the vote documents and ask questions, we will also hold a meeting to discuss this historic TA very soon. Also, please thank your Bargaining Team! They worked very hard.
We’re getting ready to head to the bargaining table, and we want to hear from you!
Join our Union Bargaining Team for a Bargaining Kick-Off Meeting to talk about the upcoming negotiations, review bargaining priorities, discuss the bargaining process, and answer questions.
This is your opportunity to get involved, share what matters most to you, and help shape our priorities as we prepare for bargaining.
Meeting ID: 821 3753 7914 Passcode: 251390
Get Involved!
Strong contracts are built when members stay informed and involved. Join us as we kick off bargaining and make sure Jefferson County members’ voices are heard at the table.
We look forward to seeing you and hearing from you!
Our Union Bargaining Team has reached a Tentative Agreement with Olympic Medical Center and is recommending a YES vote!
After ten sessions across six months of negotiations, our union Bargaining Team reached the difficult but necessary decision to call for a strike authorization vote.
We’ve come to management with contract language addressing our positions being overstaffed by agency & traveler employees. Management have come to us rejecting this proposal.
Our Bargaining Team is thrilled to announce that on September 22, 2026, an overwhelming majority of our members voted YES and approved the contract! We now have a ratified contract!
Our Union Bargaining Team has been working for several months on an agreement to transition Audiology Assistants and Pathologist Assistants into the existing UFCW 3000 Kaiser Permanente Pro Tech Optical Contract and we have reached a tentative agreement. The Bargaining Team fully recommends this agreement.
SEATTLE – Today the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson’s Fair Pricing and Transparency ordinance with no corporate amendments that open the door to algorithmic pricing or weaken enforcement, making Seattle home to the strongest ban on surveillance pricing in the country.
The employer joined us for two bargaining sessions on September 17 and 18. They have hired a new legal counsel who seemingly is trying to set a different, more collaborative tone with our union. We reached Tentative Agreements on several topics, including an Artificial Intelligence Memorandum of Understanding and an Inclusion Memorandum of Understanding to help protect some of our members who are part of marginalized communities.
Join your Bargaining Team and coworkers for an update on the current bargaining campaigns on Tuesday, Sept 22, 5:30-6:30pm. We will give updates on the St. Michael and St. Joseph bargaining and how we can build power together. Please show your support for your bargaining teams by wearing your union swag with pride every day, but especially today, September 18, for our next bargaining session.
Any questions can be addressed to Charlie King at 360-409-0606 or a Bargaining Team Member.
For the first time in history, on Tuesday, Sept 29, grocery store workers from across Washington State and North Idaho met at the same table to plan for our upcoming bargaining session with Kroger and Albertsons.
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Monday, October 19, 2026 at 2pm
Muchas Gracias: 801 W Davis St Cle Elum, WA 98922
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Carter Salera at 360-409-0586
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4:30pm
Alfys Monroe: 19121 US-2, Monroe, WA 98272
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kyle Doherty at 360-419-4677
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 9am
Ferndale Library: 2125 Main St, Ferndale, WA 98248
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Alyssa Conn at 360-419-4681
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4pm
Central Library: 210 Central Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Alyssa Conn at 360-419-4681
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4pm
Round Table Pizza: 15730 1st Ave S, Burien, WA 98418
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Naomi Oligario at 360-436-6608
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 10am
Woods Coffee: 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Anthony Earl at 360-409-0622
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4pm
Covington IHOP; 27149 185th Avenue Southeast, Covington
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Christie Harris at 206-436-6523
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4pm
Zaucer Pizza: 14712 NE 91st St, Suite 400, Redmond WA
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Libby Rindal at 206-436-6563
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 12pm
The Coffee Oasis: 822 Burwell St, Bremerton, WA 98337
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Quinn Rao at 360-409-0585
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 4:30pm
D&M Coffee: 204 S Water ST Ellensburg, WA 98926
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Carter Salera at 360-409-0586
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 AT 4:30PM
UFCW 3000 Wenatchee Office: 330 S King st, Wenatchee WA 98801
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Carter Salera at 360-409-0586
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 5pm
Issaquah Coffee Company: 317 NW Gilman Blvd, Issaquah, WA 98027
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Anthony Earl at 360-409-0622
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 9am
Alexas cafe and catering: 10115 Main St. Bothell WA 98011
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kyle Doherty at 360-419-4677
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 6pm
Sorelli Pizza: 22402 44th Ave W. Mountlake Terrace WA 98043
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kyle Doherty at 360-419-4677
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 3pm
Shoreline Public Library: 345 NE 175th St, Shoreline, WA 98155
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Jeff Dunn at 206-436-6540
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11am
Hap’s Burgers & Taps: 2411 76th Ave SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Maggie Breshears at 206-436-6621
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 9am
Alexas cafe and catering: 10115 Main St. Bothell WA 98011
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Talisa Boad at 206-436-6510
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 6pm
Sorelli Pizza: 22402 44th Ave W. Mountlake Terrace WA 98043
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Talisa Boad at 206-436-6510
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 4pm
Issaquah IHOP; 1433 NW Sammamish Rd Issaquah, WA 98027
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Christie Harris at 206-436-6523
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 10am
Silverdale office: 2430 NE Myhre Rd, Silverdale WA 98383
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Cynthia Hill at 360-662-1986
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5pm
Shoreline Public Library: 345 NE 175th St, Shoreline, WA 98155
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Jeff Dunn at 206-436-6540
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 10am
UFCW 3000 Mt. Vernon office: 1510 N 18th St, Mt Vernon, WA 98273
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Richard Waits at 360-409-0304
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 3pm
Alfys Marysville: 9330 State Ave, Marysville, WA 98270
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Richard Waits at 360-409-0304
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 10am
Cafe Vita Capitol Hill: 1005 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Keenan Calhoun at 360-409-0578
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5pm
Capitol Hill Library: 425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Keenan Calhoun at 360-409-0578
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 12pm
Snap Dragon Bakery: 4500 California Ave SW, Seattle, 98116
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Naomi Oligario at 360-436-6608
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 4pm
MOD Pizza: 2800 SW Barton St, Seattle, WA 98126
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Naomi Oligario at 360-436-6608
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 9am
Chocolati: 8319 Greenwood Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Maggie Breshears at 206-436-6621
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 6pm
Razzi’s Pizza: 8523 Greenwood Ave. N, Seattle WA
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Maggie Breshears at 206-436-6621
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 10am Online via Zoom >>
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Christie Harris at 206-436-6523
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 10am
203 Fahrenheit Coffee Co: 11901 NE Village Plaza, Suite 171, Kirkland WA
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Libby Rindal at 206-436-6563
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 4pm
Seabeck Pizza: 174 SE Sedgwick Rd, Port Orchard, WA 98366
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Quinn Rao at 360-409-0585
Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 12pm
Westside Pizza: 540 W Washington St, Sequim WA 98382
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Cynthia Hill at 360-662-1986
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 10am
Starbucks: 3820 Rainier Ave S., Seattle WA 98118
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Emjay Johnson at 206-436-6572
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 1pm
Renton Library: 100 Mill Ave S., Renton WA 98057
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Emjay Johnson at 206-436-6572
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 3pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Mark Hansen at 509-340-7406
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5:30pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Mark Hansen at 509-340-7406
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 9am
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kim Bristlin at 509-340-7413
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 3pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kim Bristlin at 509-340-7413
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5:30pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Kim Bristlin at 509-340-7413
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 11am
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Morgan McKitrick at 360-409-0614
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 3pm
UFCW 3000 Spokane Office: 3021 E. Grace Ave. Spokane, WA 99207
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Morgan McKitrick at 360-409-0614
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 6pm
UFCW 3000 Yakima Office: 507 S 3rd St Yakima Wa 98901
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Pete Nunez at 360-409-0545
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5pm
UFCW 3000 Richland Office: 2505 Duportail St, Richland Wa 99352
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Pete Nunez at 360-409-0545
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 11am
UFCW 3000 Richland Office: 2505 Duportail St, Richland WA 99352
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Rob Roundy at 360-409-0594
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 5pm
UFCW 3000 Richland Office: 2505 Duportail St, Richland WA 99352
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Rob Roundy at 360-409-0594
Friday, October 23, 2026 at 5pm
Seattle Public Library Northeast Branch: 6801 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115
If you have questions, contact your Union Rep Jeff Dunn at 206-436-6540
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.
Read MoreNow 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.
Read MoreAfter months of negotiations, leafleting, info-picketing, a 97% strike authorization vote in June, and ratification votes from grocery store workers in many Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores, our Union Bargaining Team harnessed all that power from thousands of grocery workers to fight and win a fair contract.
Read MoreAfter historic votes in Western and Eastern WA grocery contracts. We have been able to define and limit the scope of work permitted by Third-Party Franchise in the produce department.
Read MoreOn October 16, we ratified new contracts for UFCW 3000 grocery stores in Skagit, Island, and Whatcom Counties at Safeway, Haggen, Fred Meyer, and Albertsons/Safeway, and Saar’s Grocery in Oak Harbor.
Read MoreWe overwhelmingly ratified a new agreement at Fred Meyer Richland! Our combined strength with fellow grocery workers across the state established a unified expiration timeline in 2027 for tens of thousands of UFCW 3000 grocery workers bargaining at the same time.
Read MoreJust a few weeks ago, we voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The success of that vote armed our member-led bargaining team with the power to win an agreement that fixed the low-ball, takeaway offer from Kroger and Albertsons that prompted the strike vote in the first place.
Read MoreOur union member bargaining team reached a Tentative Agreement and recommends a YES vote to accept the proposal from the employers.
“This is the ninth time I’ve sat at this table—this contract allows us to majorly build our power in the region” —Jeff Smith, Fred Meyer GM
Read MoreThis tentative agreement pioneers new staffing language, establishes first-ever staffing programs at our stores, secures strong wage increases, fully funds our healthcare plan with no benefit cuts, provides a pension we can count on, adds a major investment into our apprenticeship and training fund, and significantly boosts our bargaining power in the region and in the western U.S.
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After three days of voting across the Puget Sound area, grocery store workers at Fred Meyer, QFC, Albertsons, Safeway, Haggen and Saars voted to reject the latest contract and to authorize a strike by over 97%.
Our union’s overwhelming support for a strike should serve as a wake-up call to these corporations as we continue to fight for better wages, better staffing, and better stores. As these results show, we’re past tired of waiting.
— Kevin Flynn, Marysville Albertsons, referencing the workers impacted by strike authorization votes taking place in Colorado and Southern California this week.
Our member-led bargaining team returns to the table late next week, June 12 and 13.
• Review your budget and look for ways to save.
• Contact your steward or union rep and learn how to become a strike captain.
• Keep your eyes peeled for strike schedules and W9s to make sure you qualify for strike benefits.
As the time to reach a deal came down to the wire, the companies acted with no urgency. They made our team wait for hours between proposals, and when they did pass something back, they only moved an inch here and there. Their posture at the table spoke volumes: They don’t value our work, and they don’t think we’re ready to fight for what we deserve. We’re happy to prove them wrong.
Our bargaining team unanimously recommends a NO vote on the contract and a YES vote to authorize a strike so corporate knows they can’t push us around.
Read MoreJason Millione and Aric Martinez know a thing or two about fresh cut fruit. The two are produce clerks at the Mill Creek Fred Meyer and have 16 years of experience between them. Their store used to lead the district in Fresh Cut sales.
Read MoreDepending on how our upcoming negotiations go, our Bargaining Team may recommend a NO vote, a strike authorization vote, or a contract ratification vote.
Read MoreFrom April 28 to 30, our member-led Bargaining Team yet again sat across the table from Albertsons and Kroger. We presented data to the companies showing that they have made record profits over the last five years—and yet their CEOs keep slashing staffing to fatten their own wallets and line the pockets of their investors.
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From the first day of negotiations, our member-led bargaining team has worked to reach a fair contract that honors and respects our hard work. Today Kroger and Albertsons proposed the biggest cuts to our health plan since 2013, when we were two hours away from calling a strike. This new proposal would potentially take away coverage from thousands of members and shift more healthcare costs to us. The companies attempting to increase our cost burden are the same ones who have seen profits increase by about 100% over the past five years, four to six times greater than the profits they saw before the COVID pandemic. We will never accept proposals that strip away health coverage from thousands of members.
“We have no interest in accepting proposals that kick people off our health care plan,”
—Ballard QFC Amy Dayley Angell
But the employers’ disrespect did not end with their healthcare proposal. They advanced a wage proposal of $1, $0.50, $0.50. That’s half or less than half depending on your job classification of what we settled for three years ago! We are worth more than fifty cents, which is why our union proposed a compensation package that would reward loyalty, keep up with the cost of living, and bring us in line with the pay of competitors like Costco.
“They are proposing to give us less in wage increases than Colorado, California, Spokane, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon—they must be joking, right?”
— Princetta Woodhouse, Redondo Fred Meyer
If you factor in inflation and the increased healthcare premiums the employers are demanding, their wage proposal would likely amount to a pay cut for all of us. Pay cuts for us while the companies each pay their CEOs more than $15 million a year? No way!
We know these greedy corporate CEOs can afford to keep our high-quality health plan intact and pay us what we are worth because the companies collectively spent nearly $16 billion in stock buybacks and dividends ($6.6 billion for Albertsons, and $9.2 billion for Kroger) between 2018 and 2022. That’s money they should have used to increase staff, wages, benefits, remodel stores, purchase new equipment, and lower prices for customers.
Next bargaining dates:
April 21, 22, 28, 29 and 30.
Step up:
Join a brief workplace leaflet next week and sign a strike pledge card if you haven’t already. Contact your union steward or union rep for more information.
Speak up:
File a staffing report at nogrocerylines.org >>
Dive deeper:
Read more information about our negotiations on our website! >>
Our Union Bargaining Team: Back row (L-R): Todd Heuer, Ballard Fred Meyer; Kim Hayes, Everett Safeway; Teamsters Local 38 E-Board Member Caprii Nakihei; Jeff Smith, Fred Meyer; Bryan Gilderoy, Kent Fred Meyer; Sam Dancy, Westwood Village QFC; Debra Rix, Callow Ave Safeway; Cliff Powers, Anacortes Safeway; Dan Howes, Crown Hill Metro Market; Roger Yanez, Bella Bottega QFC. Middle row (L-R): Kyle Doherty, Stanwood Haggen; Kevin Flynn, Marysville Albertsons; Kyong Barry, S Auburn Albertsons; Princetta Woodhouse, Redondo Fred Meyer; Joseph Baltz, Anacortes Fred Meyer; Daisy Hannelore, Benson Plaza Fred Meyer; Yasmin Ashur, Port Orchard Albertsons. Front row (L-R): Amy Dayley Angell, Ballard QFC; J’Nee Delancey, Ballard Town and Country. Not pictured: UFCW 3000 President Faye Guenther; UFCW 3000 Secretary-Treasurer Joe Mizrahi; Teamsters Local 38 Union Rep Luke Vauley; Teamsters Local 38 Secretary-Treasurer Samantha Kantak; Teamsters Local 38 President Pete Lamb
On Thursday April 3, our union members grabbed bullhorns, hoisted up informational picket signs, and marched outside of Fred Meyers and QFCs across Puget Sound to fight for better wages, better staffing, and better stores.
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.
Correcting the Record: Decades after Organizing Her Own Unit, Leslie Ball Is Still Fighting for Her Coworkers
Leslie Ball, a certified surgical technologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma and a longtime UFCW 3000 Union Steward, has spent decades standing up for herself and her coworkers.
Her fight for better working conditions began in the late 1990s, when she received a 30-cent wage increase, which ended up only being a five-cent raise after her employer reduced her shift differential by a quarter. With years of experience and a deep understanding of the value surgical techs bring to the table, she knew a nickel wasn’t going to cut it. So she and a coworker, Gail Miller, started organizing their colleagues at St. Joe's despite warnings that previous organizing efforts had failed.
Within a year, they helped Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, and other departments form the hospital’s first Technical Unit, which ratified its first contract in 1999.
Jenny C., a transporter at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, knows what it looks like when management hopes a problem will just go away.
Jenny has watched the facility's transport elevators malfunction for more than a year, filing report after report after each incident she witnessed. Supervisors did not appear to take these complaints seriously.
