Talk about adding insult to injury. For Local 400 member Angela Chiles, who works at Kroger #501 in North Chesterfield, VA, it was bad enough when she tripped on a piece of plastic in her store’s receiving area and severely injured her knee. Repairing the knee...
Corey Hicks is a champion for his Local 400 sisters and brothers. An electrical instrumentation technician at the Lipton plant in Suffolk, VA, he was a leader in organizing the workers in 2016. Ever since, he has served as a shop steward, fighting for his fellow...
Deborah Talley learned about the value of Local 400 representation the hard way. Not long after she started working at the Boar’s Head plant in Petersburg, VA, a new supervisor came on board and Deborah was assigned to train her. But then, things took a strange twist....
Our very own Kenny Pinkard, longtime union member and UFCW Local 400 Executive Board Vice President, was recently featured in Chesapeakeville, a journal of Virginia Seafood, Waterman, and Maritime Culture written and published by Timothy Thompson. The article...
“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...
