“I don’t understand it. That mom is worse off. Our community is worse off.” — Rachelle, UFCW 3000 member and Newport, WA Safeway worker. www.thestand.org/2025/10/it-f...

Starbucks needs listen to and negotiate a fair contract. It remains a mystery to us why Starbucks won't, as many in our union work in grocery Starbucks kiosks and have a contract. #NoContractNoCoffee. starbucksworkersunited.controlshift.app/petitions/no...

Former UFCW 3000 organizer Shannon Corrick offers a class at Spokane Falls Community college about how to make our unions stronger and more effective! The one-day school features workshops to build your skills as a union member. A light breakfast, full lunch, and refreshments will be offered.

Thanks to all who showed up to build labor power at Aslan last night 🍻And a special thanks to Aslan for hosting. We'll see you all next month.

Knock doors with us Sat, Oct 25, 11–1 at Cedar Park in Lake City! Fresh Food for All 🍎 means public grocery stores, protections from mass layoffs, and real community investment. Help us get out the vote for Seattle candidates who support this vision. Training onsite!

All Out Seattle, all out Washington! www.mobilize.us/nokings/?fbc...

Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to Question, Persuade, and Refer someone to help.

Our pharmacists and the pro-tech and optical unit at Kaiser stand in solidarity with our fellow Kaiser workers and Alliance members on strike up and down the west coast and Hawai'i this week. Our union siblings deserve better wages and better staffing now!

Asking those with more resources to contribute their fair share to society isn’t just good for the workers we represent and the customers we serve every day — it’s good for business.

🎉🤝 Welcome to the WSLC family UFCW 3000! WSLC President April Sims: “With 58,000 more labor siblings joining the WSLC family, we’re energized for the work ahead. United, we can protect workers’ rights, grow worker power, & ensure working families across Washington can thrive.”

Our union mourns the sudden loss UFCW 324 President Andrea Zinder. Andrea stood shoulder-to-shoulder with UFCW 3000 in the fight against the Kroger–Albertsons merger, in countless organizing campaigns, and in building worker power. Solidarity forever.✊

Solidarity forever: QFC workers ratified an agreement to allow displaced Fred Meyer workers to transfer into open QFC positions while retaining their union seniority. This ensures a fair transfer for 700+ workers whose jobs were put at risk by Kroger’s store closures. ufcw3000.org/news/2025/9/...

Our communities have had it with Kroger's corporate greed. We're fighting back on all fronts, and we're fighting for fresh food for all. Learn more at our Fresh Food for All Community Town Hall this Saturday from 2-4 at the Seattle Labor Temple. Link in bio.

Fred Meyer workers spoke, and Everett listened. Last night, the council condemned Kroger for closing the Casino Road store, putting the city on record: Our communities come before Wall Street greed.

Kroger is closing Fred Meyer stores in our region for one reason: corporate greed. They're abandoning working class communities in search of higher profits. Tune into the Everett City Council meeting at 6:30 pm tonight to hear the real story from workers.

Join UFCW 3000’s Community Town Hall on Saturday, Sept. 20 for a discussion on these topics with elected officials, workers, shoppers, and other members of our communities. RSVP at: www.mobilize.us/ufcw3000/eve...

Join UFCW 3000’s Community Town Hall on Saturday, Sept. 20 for a discussion on these topics with elected officials, workers, shoppers, and other members of our communities. RSVP at: www.mobilize.us/ufcw3000/eve...

The evidence continues to mount: Kroger's closures are about selling out working-class communities.

The gap between reality and Kroger's talking points keeps widening. The company is closing stores in our working-class neighborhoods because of corporate greed — full stop. www.kentreporter.com/business/cri...

To kick off Labor Day weekend, we are excited to announce that the nurses at the Mary Bridge Transfer Center voted to join our union. Now they will begin bargaining over their wages, benefits, and working conditions with the strength of a 56,000-member local behind them! #solidarity

Labor Day is a holiday won by workers, for workers. It’s a day to celebrate the rights we’ve fought for, honor the struggles that got us here, & recommit to building a stronger future together. Join us at one of the events happening across our state to stand in solidarity and celebrate workers.

This is a racist war on the entire working class by an authoritarian administration with no regard for the law.

Solidarity with our union siblings at SEIU 6! Security officers deserve higher wages, affordable family healthcare, and respect on the job.

On August 24, 2018, UFCW 21 held a signing ceremony to celebrate the ratification of the state’s first cannabis contract, at Have a Heart cannabis dispensaries. The contract delivered above-average compensation for the industry, comprehensive health and welfare coverage and other benefits.

Here are our unsolicited thoughts about Lake City Fred Meyer closing. It’s the end of Lake City as we know it. The ppl who work there are pillars of the community. There is a father and son who have worked there together for many years. They know people’s names and answer the phone when you call to

Join Jaz Brisack, a leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements, for an evening discussion on stories from the front lines of helping organize our workplaces.

This summer, hospitals across Washington took a few more steps toward implementing the new safer staffing law, a union member-led measure to help nurses deliver the level of care their patients deserve. At St. Michael Medical Center, the process worked well enough, but nurses have notes📝...

Thanks to the support of our loyal customers, union grocery workers won good wage increases and first-in-the-nation contract language to address the staffing crisis in stores. All of that will help reduce long lines and keep shelves stocked. buff.ly/2o4s5Uo

As the pandemic closed businesses around the world, grocery stores stayed open. Given the risk to grocery store workers, our unions fought hard for hazard pay needed to survive. UFCW Locals 21 and 1439 (who had not yet merged to form UFCW 3000) demanded hazard pay in city halls across the region.

Join us for a conversation about how recent changes to federal law will impact all of us from rural hospitals at risk of closing to reduced SNAP benefits. This online training will take place on Monday, August 18 at 10 am and 7pm. www.mobilize.us/ufcw3000/eve...

Laundry Workers Local 24 in the early 1900s became a militant striking union: 1910 STRIKE: 10% raise . 1913 STRIKE: Struck to end bosses forcing workers to remain on site without pay. 1917 STRIKE: Struck for wage increases and an 8-hour day. When it ended they won union recognition and better wages.

In the early days of our union, mandatory weekly meetings with “initiations, music, wine, cigars, speeches, & boxing matches between slaughterhouse and retail shop workers." We're proud to carry on this tradition with our member days — but instead we have theme parks and baseball games. 🎢⚾

LABOR DAY, SEATTLE: Join the movement to fight back against the billionaire agenda.

Humbled and privileged to be with healthcare leaders from across Washington state today, all part of @ufcw3000.bsky.social This is a special group doing the day to day work of ensuring our hospitals and care centers work for patients. I’m proud to support and stand with them.

Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to Question, Persuade, and Refer someone to help.

According to a new AFL-CIO report, on average CEOs make 285 times more than the workforce they oversee. At Kroger, it's even worse. CEO Rodney McMullen, who recently resigned amid scandal, made more than $15.5M - 457 times more than the average Kroger worker. What do you think - worth every penny?

Labor at Linda's returns to the tavern on election night! Stop by for: -Casual conversations with fellow laborers -Speakers at 6:30 pm -Election result screaming around 8 pm UFCW 3000 is working hard to bring similar monthly meet-ups to a town near you soon!

After three decades of fighting for recognition, more than 1,000 Seattle-area workers at four packing houses walked off the job in December of 1937. Many more workers in the region held sympathy strikes, creating a meat shortage. The strike won a 7.5-cent raise and a 40-hour work week. #tbt

Workers rights for cannabis grow workers: Thanks to legislation promoted by @ufcw3000.bsky.social, Washington state will protect the right to organize of agricultural workers in cannabis. | NW Labor Press

The President signed a bill that cuts $1T from healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich. In a live town hall public health expert Dr. Vin Gupta and a team of health policy experts from Manatt Health will explain how these severe cuts are. Join us online Tuesday, July 29 at 3:30 pm. Q&A after!

I’m partnering with some of the biggest labor unions in America to ensure their members and communities know the real impacts of the Trump Administration’s cuts on patients, clinicians and hospitals everywhere. Join us on July 29th. All welcome. #mobilize www.mobilize.us/ufcw3000/eve...

In January of 1910, 35 laundry workers, “most of whom were women,” according to the Seattle Daily News, voted to organize a union. By 1914, laundry workers founded Mutual Laundry Company in Seattle’s Lake Union district. More than 2,000 people attended the dance at the Hippodrome to celebrate.

Last week, UFCW 3000 member Richard Talbot, a grocery worker at Fred Meyer, joined WA Congresswoman Suzan DelBene and a group of community advocates at the Arlington Community Food Bank to talk about the devastating cuts to nutrition assistance in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB).

Another union member detained at NWDC, Lelo Zeferino, has a hearing scheduled on Monday. Lelo has been detained since March. www.thestand.org/2025/07/hear...

This campaign is about you-protecting our rights, our people, and our city. We are people-powered. Stand with me so l can stand for you💪🏾 @mlklabor.bsky.social @43rddemocrats.org @ufcw3000.bsky.social @seiu775.org @seiu6.bsky.social @uaw.org

Thanks to a favorable decision in a 1943 arbitration, Retail Food & Drug Clerks Union Local 1105 won equal pay for women. At that time, companies often imposed different pay scales for women and men, but the Second World War provided an opportunity for our union to begin to correct that inequality.

ICE detained local childcare provider and SEIU 925 union member Nicolle Forero — along with her whole family — and sent them to San Antonio, TX. Her six-year-old son suffers from a serious health condition and needs life-saving medical care. Learn how you can support Forero and her family.

"We all out here trying to make a living."

🗳️ Puget Sound grocery workers, it’s time to make your voices heard! We’re voting on our new contract offer over the next three days. Dive into the full offer and/or read the summary here: ufcw3000.org/grocery-barg...