UFCW 3000 Member Story: Vivian Pitre

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Vivian Pitre

Vivian Pitre has worked at the North City Safeway off 175th St. in Seattle for 6 years. She spent four years doing fresh cut work in the produce department, but didn't like how isolated the job was, so two years ago, she transferred to the deli department. She loves the interaction with customers. This is her first union job and she likes it. "It's a good job."

Vivian flagged down her Union rep during a site visit and wanted to know how long she had left until she made it to the journey payrate.

The Rep did some digging, and it turns out, Vivian should have made journey some time ago. This month, Safeway made it right. Not only is Vivian now making journey wages, but she was issued over $4,500 in back pay. That's wages she should have been earning all along!

Check your paycheck, check your union contract!

New Kroger "ExpressPay"

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As part of our most recent agreement with Kroger (the parent company of QFC & Fred Meyer) during this COVID-19 crisis, they made a service called “ExpressPay” available to members.

ExpressPay gives you access to your earned wages in advance of payday. This means Kroger is updating the money you have earned at the end of each day based on the hours you have worked, and your pay for those hours will available to you in an ExpressPay account. You can transfer money you have earned in your ExpressPay account to your bank account at any time. Whatever is left over will appear on your normal paycheck on your normal payday.

To use ExpressPay, you need to sign up at https://lite.dailypay.com/employees/signup/kroger with your name, phone, email, and employee ID (which can be found on your pay stub). You may also need the last 4 digits of your Direct Deposit bank account on file.

If you currently get paper checks: You can still sign up for ExpressPay, but you must add a bank account to your ExpressPay account.

Kroger has offered an employee support email and phone number for any support you need to use this service:

NOTE: This is a new service and we anticipate you may have questions or issues. Please keep your Union Rep in the loop as Kroger tries this out so we can share how it’s working for everyone and communicate with Kroger right away if there are problems.