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:

We met again with REI’s Morgan Lewis lawyers on February 24 and 25. We reached a Tentative Agreement on Anti-Discrimination and continued to get closer on Union Representation, Health & Safety, Job Vacancies & Promotions, Seniority, and Technology & Data. We’re hopeful that REI will keep up this momentum and continue to come to the table prepared and with respect as we work towards a fair first contract. This shift is in no doubt due to all of our organizing efforts and the unity we’ve maintained over the last few years!

Our Union held our first round of Contract Action Team (CAT) meetings on February 19 at 9am and 4pm. We identified higher wages, better seniority, scheduling protections, and improving our retirement as major priorities to fight for at the bargaining table.