PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS - Members Take Their Breaks
/In April and May, hundreds of Grocery Store Workers collectively took actions to demonstrate the importance of uninterrupted meal and rest breaks at work…
Read MoreIn our last contract negotiations, our union won the largest wage increases that we’ve seen, secured a transition to the stable our union health plan through the UFCW Spokane healthcare Trust, and ensured funding to keep our pension plan dependable for retirement. Our NE Oregon contracts recently expired, and our union is prioritizing a new contract that builds upon our previous wins.
After four long days of bargaining with the Employer and countless hours of preparation, our Bargaining Team reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) that we are excited to bring back to our members!
While our initial bargaining sessions were largely positive and relatively low stakes, we now have reached the meat and potato economic proposals that our unit cares about most. This is often the most challenging stage of bargaining – especially when bargaining a first contract. An example from today: in response to our extensively researched wage proposal, the company stated "we don't want to change how we do things" without further discussion.
As 2,500 UFCW 3000 members at MultiCare continue preparations for contract bargaining to begin early next year, there are several upcoming opportunities to gather, discuss and contribute. First off, a big thanks to all who completed the bargaining surveys during August and September. That information will be crucial in our assessing priorities before bargaining.
After holding nomination votes for the Labor Management Advisory Committee (LMAC) from September 21–25, 2026, and then holding nominee votes for Ballard, Central District, and Issaquah on October 21, 2026, we are happy to announce your committee members!
This agreement comes after more than six months of bargaining, an informational picket, federal mediation, a strike pledge campaign, and a strike authorization vote that showed CommonSpirit members were ready to fight for a better contract
After more than a month since our last session, our Union Bargaining Team; Alyssa and Oliver were able to reconvene with the employer on October 19 to receive their economic counter proposal.
Join us via Zoom on Tuesday, October 20, at 6:30 PM to learn more about the tentative agreement reached between our Union Bargaining Team and CommonSpirit.
“At a time when workers are struggling to keep up with sky-high prices for groceries, housing, health care, and other basic necessities, we cannot afford to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in our state,” said Sam Dancy, UFCW 3000 Executive Board Vice President and Grocery Bargaining Team Member
Our member-led Bargaining Team met with representative from Puzzle Break to lay the foundation for the negotiations of our first union contract. We discussed guidelines around how proposals will be passed, Bargaining Team availability and our desire to have consistent and timely bargaining dates moving forward.
After months of difficult negotiations and a powerful show of solidarity, we have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract! Thanks to our collective strength, we secured significant improvements, including:
Please join us in person at the UFCW 3000 Des Moines office for Contract Action Team meetings on the following dates. We will be meeting in person at the union office, but for those who cannot join in person there will be an online option. During these meetings, will be sharing updates as well as creating picket signs for an upcoming info picket.
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.
In April and May, hundreds of Grocery Store Workers collectively took actions to demonstrate the importance of uninterrupted meal and rest breaks at work…
Read MoreMacy’s was not paying out the lump sum owed to members from the recently ratified Macy’s Furniture Gallery Contract. The employer owed these members $.50 an hour for all hours worked during a specific time frame. Union Steward Brenda Eaden repeatedly made inquiries to Management…
Read MoreDan Hodge works at the Port Orchard Albertsons. Prior to that he worked at both Safeway and Fred Meyer where he became a Journeyman in the Deli. When he started working at Albertsons, he realized they did not pay him his journey wage rate even though he had been at the journey level at Fred Meyer within the last 2 years.
Read MoreIn May, over 150 UFCW 21 members and non-union workers convened the first Future of Retail forum, both in person and by video to connect people in Mt. Vernon, Silverdale, and Seattle.
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Monday, August 19
6:00 pm
Grays Harbor Hospital
West Campus
915 Anderson Drive
Conference Room E - 1st Floor
Auburn (New Time, New Room)
Wednesday, August 21
1:15 pm
Auburn Regional Medical Center
Plaza 1: 202 N Division St
AMC - 1st Floor
Cascade Conference Room
Bellevue
Thursday, August 22
9:00 am & 7:00 pm
Sheraton Hotel
100 112th Ave NE
Newport Room
Bellingham
Wednesday, August 21
7:00 pm
Quality Inn Baron Suites
100 E Kellogg Road
Olympus Room
Bremerton
Thursday, August 22
11:00 am
Harrison Medical Center
2520 Cherry Ave
Aspen Room - 2nd Floor
Brewster
Wednesday, August 21
5:00 pm
Three Rivers Hospital
415 Hospital Way
Hillcrest Admin. Bldg.
Commons Area
Centralia
Wednesday, August 21
10:00 am
Providence Centralia Hospital
914 S Scheuber Road
Cafeteria
Colville/Chewelah
Wednesday, August 21
5:00 pm
Nordlig Hotel
101 W Grant Ave, Chewelah
Meeting Room
Coupeville (New Time)
Wednesday, August 21
3:45 pm
Whidbey Health Medical Center
101 N Main St
Conference Room Trailer
Enumclaw
Monday, August 19
1:00 pm
Guesthouse Inn
1000 Griffin Ave
Meeting Room
Everett (New Room)
Thursday, August 22
9:00 am & 7:00 pm
Snohomish County PUD
2320 California Street
Room TC1-A
Federal Way
Tuesday, August 20
9:00 am
Hometown Office Suites & Svcs
33530 1st Way South #102
Classroom
Forks
Monday, August 19
2:00 pm
Forks Community Hospital
530 Bogachiel Way
Main Conference Room
Kennewick (New Building)
Monday, August 19
6:00 pm
IBEW 112
114 N Edison St
Meeting Room
Kent
Monday, August 19
9:00 am & 5:30 pm
Kent Commons
525 4th Ave N
Interurban Room
Lynnwood
Monday, August 19
7:00 pm
Snohomish County PUD
21014 63rd Ave W
Conference Room
Monroe
Thursday, August 22
3:30 pm
EvergreenHealth Monroe
14701 179th Ave SE
The Cafe Corner
Moses Lake
Thursday, August 22
5:00 pm
Samaritan Healthcare
801 E Wheeler Road
Classroom 401
Mount Vernon
Thursday, August 22
7:00 pm
UFCW 21 Office
1510 N 18th St
Conference Room
Oak Harbor
Wednesday, August 21
7:00 pm
Best Western Harbor Plaza
33175 SR 20
Oak Harbor Room
Olympia
Monday, August 19
12:00 pm
Kaiser Permanente
700 Lily Rd NE
Conference Room A
Tuesday, August 20
3:30 pm
Capital Medical Center
3900 Capital Mall Dr SW
Cafeteria
Wednesday, August 21
1:00 pm
Providence St. Peter Hospital
413 Lily Road NE
Cafeteria
Omak
Tuesday, August 20
2:30 pm
Mid-Valley Hospital
Family Medical Building
800 Jasmine St
Conference Room C & D
Tuesday, August 20
5:15 pm
Mid-Valley Clinic
529 Jasmine St
Break Room
Port Angeles (New Room)
Wednesday, August 21
4:30 pm
Olympic Medical Center
939 Caroline Street
Wendel Room
Port Townsend
Tuesday, August 20
12:00 pm & 5:15 pm
Pt. Townsend Senior Ctr.
620 Tyler St
Board Room
Sea-Tac
Monday, August 19
7:00 pm
Angle Lake Family Resource Center
4040 S 188th St #100
Meeting Room Suite 100
Seattle
Tuesday, August 20
9:30 am & 7:00 pm
Phinney Neighborhood Center
6532 Phinney Ave N
Room 6 - Blue Bldg.
Thursday, August 22
9:00 am & 7:00 pm
UFCW 21 Office
5030 1st Ave S
Joe Crump Hall
Sequim
Wednesday, August 21
7:00 pm
Quality Inn
134 River Road
Breakfast Room
Shelton
Tuesday, August 20
12:00 pm
Mason General Hospital
901 Mountain View Dr
Persung Room
Silverdale
Wednesday, August 21
9:00 am & 5:30 pm
UFCW 21 Office
3888 NW Randall Way #105
Conference Room
South Bend
Monday, August 19
3:00 pm
Willapa Harbor Hospital
800 Alder Street
Evergreen Room
Spokane
Thursday, August 22
8:00 am, 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm
UFCW 21 Office
2805 N Market St
Conference Room
Tacoma (New Room)
Tuesday, August 20
2:00 pm & 5:00 pm
Tacoma General Hospital
315 MLK Jr Way
Chelsea Heights 1 & 2
Tonasket
Wednesday, August 21
12:30 pm & 2:00 pm
North Valley Hospital
203 S Western Ave
Orientation Room
Walla Walla (New Room)
Monday, August 19
1:00 pm
Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center
401 W. Poplar St
Luken Room
Wenatchee
Thursday, August 22
12:00 pm
Confluence Health
Central WA Hospital
1300 Fuller St
Conference Room J
An experienced leadership team. Our top leadership team of the union has over 80 years of combined experience with our union. Under their leadership, we have won and enforced some of the strongest contracts in the nation, partnered in community and with elected officials to improve lives for our members and others in our state. Our next challenge is to fully develop a new generation of leadership at each and every workplace. And we are well on our way – with now over 1,500 trained workplace leaders and on target to hit our goal of 2,000 by the end of the year. A strong union is about having racial, economic, and social justice, and we need thousands of workplace leaders to make that happen.
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Scholarship Winners
Four-Year Scholarship of $4,000/year for 4 years - Laci Bowhay
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In April and May, hundreds of Grocery Store Workers collectively took actions to demonstrate the importance of uninterrupted meal and rest breaks at work…
Macy’s was not paying out the lump sum owed to members from the recently ratified Macy’s Furniture Gallery Contract. The employer owed these members $.50 an hour for all hours worked during a specific time frame. Union Steward Brenda Eaden repeatedly made inquiries to Management…
Dan Hodge works at the Port Orchard Albertsons. Prior to that he worked at both Safeway and Fred Meyer where he became a Journeyman in the Deli. When he started working at Albertsons, he realized they did not pay him his journey wage rate even though he had been at the journey level at Fred Meyer within the last 2 years.
In May, over 150 UFCW 21 members and non-union workers convened the first Future of Retail forum, both in person and by video to connect people in Mt. Vernon, Silverdale, and Seattle.
An experienced leadership team. Our top leadership team of the union has over 80 years of combined experience with our union. Under their leadership, we have won and enforced some of the strongest contracts in the nation, partnered in community and with elected officials to improve lives for our members and others in our state. Our next challenge is to fully develop a new generation of leadership at each and every workplace. And we are well on our way – with now over 1,500 trained workplace leaders and on target to hit our goal of 2,000 by the end of the year. A strong union is about having racial, economic, and social justice, and we need thousands of workplace leaders to make that happen.
After thousands of health care workers spoke up for workplace and patient safety, breaks & overtime protection bill #SHB1155 PASSED by wide margins in both the Senate and the House today! And thanks to the advocacy of our members and members of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and Washington State Nurses Association, this version of the bill removed two bad amendments, so it will cover all hospitals and all nursing & technical staff and it won’t limit shifts to 8 hours.
Our members and allies rallied down in Olympia today to hold lawmakers accountable and were able to watch the final passage of this bill. Thank you to everyone who spoke up for this historic legislation! #BreaksAreALifesaver#UnionStrong #WAleg
In April and May, hundreds of Grocery Store Workers collectively took actions to demonstrate the importance of uninterrupted meal and rest breaks at work…
Macy’s was not paying out the lump sum owed to members from the recently ratified Macy’s Furniture Gallery Contract. The employer owed these members $.50 an hour for all hours worked during a specific time frame. Union Steward Brenda Eaden repeatedly made inquiries to Management…
Dan Hodge works at the Port Orchard Albertsons. Prior to that he worked at both Safeway and Fred Meyer where he became a Journeyman in the Deli. When he started working at Albertsons, he realized they did not pay him his journey wage rate even though he had been at the journey level at Fred Meyer within the last 2 years.
In May, over 150 UFCW 21 members and non-union workers convened the first Future of Retail forum, both in person and by video to connect people in Mt. Vernon, Silverdale, and Seattle.
An experienced leadership team. Our top leadership team of the union has over 80 years of combined experience with our union. Under their leadership, we have won and enforced some of the strongest contracts in the nation, partnered in community and with elected officials to improve lives for our members and others in our state. Our next challenge is to fully develop a new generation of leadership at each and every workplace. And we are well on our way – with now over 1,500 trained workplace leaders and on target to hit our goal of 2,000 by the end of the year. A strong union is about having racial, economic, and social justice, and we need thousands of workplace leaders to make that happen.
We 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.