WE WON! The 11 unionized stores across the country successfully turned out tens of thousands of members to reject the cherry-picked corporate Board candidates! This was a huge sign to the co-op that REI members and workers want to bring the co-op back to its founding values. Members across the country sent a message to the co-op: STOP UNION BUSTING and BARGAIN A FAIR CONTRACT WITH WORKERS!

On Tuesday, April 29, our Bargaining Team met with Management for our third bargaining session. We are excited to report we reached further Tentative Agreements on:

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.

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.   

We are still fighting for better scheduling practices, better staffing in our stores, and better wages and retirement. On March 25, we presented Hudson with our first initial economic proposal. This is going to change as negotiations move forward, but here are some highlights about what we proposed:

Our Union Bargaining Team is excited to share an update following our first Sea Wolf Bakers contract bargaining session on Tuesday, March 25! To begin negotiations, we met with the Employer and shared our initial round of non-economic proposals.

We are excited to let you know that our first bargaining date is set, and negotiations for our first contract will begin on Tuesday the 25!

On March 4, our bargaining team met with Hudson News to present our non-economic proposal which included: