Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores: Camano Island Meat Contract Vote Scheduled!

Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores: Camano Island Meat Contract Vote Scheduled!

After months of leafleting, info-picketing, petition-signing, and winning a 97% strike authorization vote, our bargaining team harnessed the power of thousands of grocery and meat workers to fight and win a fair contract. All that organizing helped win: 

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UFCW 3000 Member Speaks Out: “Our Communities Benefit When People Are Fed and Healthy”

UFCW 3000 Member Speaks Out: “Our Communities Benefit When People Are Fed and Healthy”

Earlier this month, UFCW 3000 member Richard Talbot, a grocery worker at Fred Meyer #25 in Bellingham, joined Washington Congresswoman Suzan DelBene and a group of SNAP recipients, food bank staff, educators, and community advocates at the Arlington Community Food Bank to talk about the devastating cuts to nutrition assistance in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB).

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Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Contract Ratified!

Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Contract Ratified!

Just 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.

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Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Tentative Agreement Reached—vote times scheduled!

Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores Tentative Agreement Reached—vote times scheduled!

Our 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

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Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores We Reached a Tentative Agreement

Puget Sound Allied Grocery Stores We Reached a Tentative Agreement

This 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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