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...
“Life-changing.” That’s how Lisa Harris described the impact of attending the January 15-19 Creating Change Conference in Dallas, thanks to a scholarship from UFCW OUTreach. A 13-year member who works at the Atlee Road Kroger in Mechanicsville, Va., Lisa was working...
For Local 400 member Claudia McCann, it was a year that seemingly had no end—until an arbitration won her job back and $34,485 in back pay. It all started with words. Claudia and a co-worker got into an argument—behind closed doors, not on the floor of Kroger #532 in...
For Local 400 member and Kroger meat cutter Clarence “Pete” Dickerson, justice was a long time coming. But when it arrived, it was sweet—to the tune of $31,855. Pete’s ordeal started more than eight years ago, when he transferred from his Kroger store in Richmond to...
For 29 years, Mary Stephens had worked at the Parkersburg Care Center (now owned by Genesis Healthcare, Inc.) in Parkersburg, W.Va., the first 15 years in dietary and the last 14 years in laundry. By all accounts, she was a model employee and Local 400 member. Two...
For Loan Cao, it was seven-week ordeal, but thanks to her union, it was one with a happy ending. A 29-year Local 400 member who works in the front end at Giant Food #795 in Springfield, Va., Loan was suddenly fired on December 11, 2018. She was alleged to have done...
