PCC - Contract Vote Scheduled

Our Bargaining Team began meeting this last winter to negotiate our contract. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from meeting in person, we have continued to work together to fight for fair wage increases. 

We won significant wage increases with full retro throughout the scale while maintaining our healthcare and securing our pension. This agreement is for 1 year (through December 2020), so we will be back to the table this fall to negotiate a full three-year contract. We’re excited to work with our co-workers to continue to address wages and other issues.

Given restrictions on meetings and members dealing with an ongoing pandemic, we are glad to have reached this 1-year deal now so that members can get immediate raises and full back pay. We can all focus on fighting for a full 3-year contract in a few months when we can regroup in person. 

– Your Bargaining Team

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To review a copy of the full legal document with all changes to the contract please visit the links provided below.

Grocery - View Document
Meat - View Document

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Zoom Vote Meeting Times
6/16 9am - 11am
6/16 5pm - 7pm
6/17 9am - 11am
6/17 5pm - 7pm

Contact a bargaining team member or your Union Rep for call-in details.

PCC - Bargaining Continues

The Bargaining Committee continues to have discussions with the Employer. We are committed to fighting for a contract that ensures:

• COVID-19 pay for members who are exposed or diagnosed with COVID-19. 

• Keeping our sick leave 

• Keeping our parental leave

• Maintaining our healthcare

• Securing our pension

SIGN ON TO THE PETITION! 

Let’s tell PCC that workers deserve a safe work place! A safety petition was  launched and is circulating  to ensure PCC workers have the highest level of safety in their stores possible during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 3 update for Members on Coronavirus

UFCW 21 President Faye Guenther with PCC members Atsuko and Jeanett in Edmonds to talk about their upcoming bargain and discuss how the Novel Coronavirus outbreak is impacting members at work.

• We are in active communication with state and county officials to get the most up-to-date information we need to help keep members safe.

• We have filed information requests with our health care employers to ensure they are following guidelines to keep members safe at work.

• We are in discussions with other employers about best practices for public health and workplace safety to ensure all members are safe at work.

• We are identifying any areas we need to demand to bargain over the impacts of this outbreak, and are making plans for long-term effects of an outbreak in our workplaces.

• UFCW 21 President Faye Guenther visited members this morning to answer questions and discuss how the coronavirus is impacting workplaces.

Remember: utilize the leave language and health care you’ve bargained for, and contact your Shop Steward or Union Rep for any support you need to stay safe and keep your workplace safe, including if you face any discipline related to the impacts of this outbreak.

More information and resources:

UFCW 21 Update for Members on the Coronavirus Outbreak

PCC Bargaining Update: Meet our Bargaining Team

On Monday, February 3 our PCC Bargaining Team met together for the first time. From the hundreds of bargaining surveys we received from members to set our bargaining priorities, by a wide margin, members are most concerned with better wages, secure retirement, dependable health care, increasing safety and training in our stores, and raising transparency and worker voices in the governance of PCC as a co-op. As a team we are committed to negotiating a contract we all can be proud of. Our next negotiation sessions will take place in early March. Stay involved, be sure we have your most updated information to stay connected and informed throughout the bargaining process.

PCC - Contract Ratified

PCC Contract Votes Set

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PCC needs to embrace co-op values

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PCC - Co-op Values are Union Values

PCC - Rolling Backwards

PCC - Union Values are Co-Op Values!

PCC - Bargaining Continues

PCC Grocery / Meat - Bargaining Continues

PCC Co-op Values are Union Values

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PCC Bargaining Update

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PCC Grocery & Meat - Bargaining Begins

Members Stand Up for Their Rights

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United For Quality Care

When UFCW 21 health care members at Providence Everett joined together with OPEIU Local 8 members at the hospital on a common petition to Management for improved contracts and working conditions, they found greater strength than if either had acted alone. That is the story we know to be true and we need to repeat time and again. Taking action together works. This helped both groups of workers from two unions win improved contracts. 

Taking a Break is Good for Everyone

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For health care workers breaks are not only an issue for our own health and safety but for all of our patients and co-workers too. In many hospitals and clinics people work through breaks and/or get disciplined if they report missing one. For two years our members at Capital Medical Center have taken action together and documented problems, pushing a grievance and recently winning new contract language for taking breaks and documenting missed breaks. The new language secures all employees’ right to take a paid 15 minute break for each four hours of working time and requires employees to record any missed meal/rest periods without any retaliation. Way to go Capital Medical Center members!

Another Job Saved by Strong Contract & Action

“People believing something is not enough. People need to take action in order to resist and push back against fear and hatred…When we commit to action, we move our workplaces and communities away from fear and intolerance and toward economic, political and social justice.”

Renee Gebre is a cashier at Safeway (1845 Greenwood). Every day grocery store checkers process WIC checks (a federal program to help moms with lower income get better nutrition for their kids). One day Renee made a mistake when processing a WIC check and was suspended. Our agreement with Safeway is that there must be two written warnings before a suspension for this type of violation. After contacting the employer’s labor relations, the suspension was reduced to a written warning and Ms. Gebre was paid for the hours of work she missed for her suspension. 

Steward Trainings Keep Growing our Union

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Eight members from PCC, led by Deli worker Atsuko Koseki (second from right) were recently trained up to be Stewards. Though PCC workers negotiate their contract independently, when they heard that the vast majority of UFCW 21 grocery store workers were soon to be going into their own contract negotiations, these PCC workers wanted to be trained up as Stewards and help as much as possible for everyone to achieve better wages, benefits and working conditions. Great work Atsuko and all the other PCC Stewards who went through the training pictured here.