Wray’s Thriftway & Selah Contract Vote Proposal Meeting
/
Contract Vote Proposal Meeting
Read MoreRecovery Cafe Bargaining Update
/
We want to give a quick update as not everyone has been attending the weekly/semi-weekly Zoom meetings on Thursdays. In the future, we will invite everyone via gmail calendar when the next meeting is scheduled.
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Taking It To The Streets!
/
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 MoreUFCW 3000: 125 Years of Solidarity
/
April 2, 2025 marks UFCW 3000’s quasquicentennial, a word so fancy that nobody quite knows how to say it. Regardless of how you pronounce it, the absurdly Latinate term means we’ve been around for 125 years. During that time, we’ve grown from a crew of nine butchers in downtown Seattle to the largest private-sector union in the Pacific Northwest, representing more than 56,000 workers in grocery, retail, food processing, health care, laundry and textiles, cannabis, and others industries.
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores The Clock Is Ticking
/
In this week’s meetings with Kroger and Albertsons/Safeway, our member-led Bargaining Team heard the first staffing proposal from Kroger. Unfortunately, their proposal fell well short of what we need to ensure safe stores for workers and customers.
Read MorePCC Update from the Labor-Management Committee!
/
The LMC’s purpose is to study and make recommendations to the BOT (or PCC’s Leadership Team, as appropriate based on the nature of the recommendation), for action on those matters on which it deliberates. Our focus will be on addressing important matters such as labor, staffing and workplace improvements, training needs and profit-sharing structures.
Read MoreMember Story: After Confronting Management Over Armed Robberies, Members Continue Fight for Safer Safeway
/
Working the self-checkout area ranks as one of the toughest jobs in our grocery stores, mostly because running these departments with skeleton crews forces cashiers to serve multiple customers and to deal with multiple problems at the same time. The working conditions are more than just frustrating—they can be dangerous, too.
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores: Fred Meyer QFC Kroger’s Answer to our Staffing Concerns... More cuts
/
Only days after Kroger’s CEO resigned for unknown ethical reasons, our bargaining team faced Kroger bargainers who seem hell-bent on stripping away workers’ rights.
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores: Safeway Stand Up for Better Staffing
/
On March 5 and 6, our Bargaining Team met with Safeway and passed proposals on staffing and scheduling, retail theft, immigration protections, PPE and safety, and other non-economic items.
Read MoreMarch Contract Action Team Meetings
/
Join your coworkers at a monthly Contract Action Team meeting—Let’s stay organized to win a strong contract this year.
Read MoreWATCH: Winning Better Grocery Store Staffing at the Bargaining Table
/
Last week, our union and Teamsters 38 held a webinar to discuss our proposals to ensure better staffing at grocery stores across the region.
Read MoreUFCW Local Unions: Ouster of Kroger CEO Brings Opportunity for Changes
/
“Now is the time for the changes we have been pushing for: Kroger should stop investing in failed tech and mergers and instead invest in stores and communities with lower prices, more stores, and workers with better staffing and better wages,”
Read MoreCentral Co-op Update- New Contract Ratified!
/
Our Union Bargaining Team is happy to announce that our new Collective Bargaining Agreements for both the grocery and meat units were ratified this past Tuesday by an overwhelming majority of those voting!
The terms of the contract are now in effect while the Negotiator works through the post-vote process of review and approval of Local 3000’s President Faye Guenther’s signature. In the meantime the “redline” draft of the contracts showing all deletions and additions in red will be available online within a few business days.
If there are questions or concerns please speak with a Bargaining Team member or call our Member Resource Center at 866-210-3000 so that we may have the appropriate person get back to you.
Our Bargaining Team (left to right): Chris Paine, Interim Produce Manager; Andee Taylor, Grocery Clerk; Eddie Parks, Interim Assistant Deli Manager; Dylan Lindquist, Meat Cutter [not pictured]
Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores info pickets in April!
/
The key to our success is staying unified and continuing to fight for better wages, better staffing, and better stores.
Read MoreFebruary Contract Action Team Meetings
/
Join your coworkers at a monthly Contract Action Team meeting—Let’s stay organized to win a strong contract this year.
Read MoreHelp Support Our Striking Union Allies by Donating to Their Strike & Defense Funds
/
Right now, nurses with Providence in Oregon and grocery workers with Kroger-owned King Soopers in Colorado are on strike for better staffing and safer workplaces. Join us and contribute to their strike and defense funds by using the links below. Donations help provide supplies like food, hot beverages, warm clothing, childcare, signs, and other needs as workers battle the cold rains in the PNW and the freezing temperatures in the Denver area. Their fight is our fight—and when we fight, we win!
Eastern WA Grocery Stores Contract Votes set!
/
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 we will be holding contract vote meetings on February 19, 20, 21 and 25.
Read MoreRosauers Contract votes set!
/
After 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!
Read MorePuget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Low Staffing Harms All of Us
/
On February 3 & 4, our Bargaining Team met with the Employers and focused on sharing stories about the impacts of low staffing on our workplaces.
Read MoreUFCW 3000 Member Story: Jessica Foster
/
When Jessica Foster was told that she couldn’t leave the floral department at the North Bend QFC without having her payrate lowered, she contacted her union representative and pursued a grievance to protect her pay and further her career.
Read More
