Office staff working for the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) have unionized with UFCW Local 400 and negotiations on a first contract will begin shortly. DPVA coordinated campaign staff, who work on electoral campaigns throughout the state, have also won union...
Jacqueline Echavarria, a 22-year Local 400 member who works as a cashier at the Petworth Safeway, was selected as one of the three Biden-Harris campaign delegates to the Electoral College from the District of Columbia. With Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala...
Join us on Thursday, September 3rd to demand hazard pay for grocery workers on the frontlines. We’re organizing 18 simultaneous actions at Giant, Safeway and Kroger stores throughout the area to call on these grocery chains to immediately reinstate hazard pay. Action...
Save Six People’s Lives After Boat Catches Fire Members of Local 400 working on the Omega Protein fishing boat Smuggler’s Point recently rescued six people whose boat had caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast near the Maryland/Virginia line. The boat and its...
Despite weeks of demanding Kroger extend its $2/hour “hero pay” program, the company has refused – even as cases continue to mount at stores throughout our jurisdiction. Now, instead of compensating hard-working Kroger associates on the frontlines, the company...
We have held several sessions over Zoom to negotiate our next West Virginia contract at Kroger. With all negotiations taking place remotely with the assistance of a federal mediator, talks are proceeding slowly and we’re making progress, but don’t anticipate that we...
