our Bargaining Team recommend voting YES on the MOU, which offers the effected employees things like: 

Our Bargaining Team is excited to have reached a tentative agreement. Priorities included, better wages, improved language around grace period and attendance.  

On June 3, Macy’s publicly announced that our work gave the company its “strongest first-quarter in four years” -- and then executives turned around and offered our member-led Bargaining Team wage proposals that fall well short of a living wage.

On Monday, our Union Bargaining Team met with Grand Central Bakery to provide our counterproposal to their first economic counter. We shared our counters on wages, scheduling, hours, holidays, healthcare, and retirement.

On Thursday, May 21, our member-led Bargaining Team met with the Employer for our second bargaining where we presented our economic proposals. These included:

Our Union Bargaining Team met with the Employer last Friday, May 8. We received a full comprehensive economic proposal and were pleasantly surprised to see a lot of movement on core issues of wages, scheduling, and health care.

We look forward to standing together, sharing insights, and building solidarity in pursuit of increasing recruitment and retention, better working conditions, and improved benefits for Macy’s workers across western Washington! 

Congratulations to all our 2026 union scholarship recipients! Scholarships are reviewed and awarded yearly by our UFCW 3000 Scholarship Committee made up of rank-and-file members from our Executive Board.

On Monday, April 27, our Union Bargaining Team met with the Employer and presented nearly a comprehensive non-economic proposal. These included most contract terms outside of wages, health care, retirement, and scheduling. At the meeting, we told the Employer that moving forward we wanted to plan for a full day session in person where we can pass across proposals. We are working with the Employer to secure future dates.

3 Days of Bargaining!

On April 14, 15, and 16 your Macy’s bargaining committee met with Macy’s management to negotiate a new contract. We made some progress on smaller contract language issues around vacation benefits, personal days, and Washington State’s Paid Family Medical Leave.

Our union was prepared to begin bargaining with Downtown Dog Lounge on March 30 and April 2, but both of those first scheduled bargaining sessions were canceled. While this delay was frustrating, our Bargaining Team remains hopeful and focused on the work ahead. We are currently working to reschedule bargaining for the end of April, and we remain committed to fighting for the issues that matter most to us: competitive wages and safe working conditions for both employees and the dogs in our care.