Leading the Fight for Workers’ Rights
UFCW stewards are on the front line of member representation. Every day, thousands of UFCW stewards are standing up to help coworkers with everyday issues at work: Enforcing union contract provisions...
View ArticleAdvocacy is an Important Duty of Steward
Stewards play many roles, including interpreter, investigator, educator, problem solver, and organizer. While all those roles are important, Local 400 shop steward Debbie Armitage believes her key...
View ArticleSteward is Essential to Workplace Safety when Investigating Accidents
In your workplace, you may see safety slogans plastered on walls near machinery that say things like, “think safety,” “safety doesn’t slow the job down but mishaps do,” or “safety— expect the...
View ArticleMentoring New Stewards Stregthens Our Union
When you decided to become a steward, you took a big step. Clearly you had the leadership skills and passion it takes to stand up for your fellow workers. Yet there are certain parts about being a...
View ArticleDon’t Pass Up the Opportunity for Safety and Health Training
Have there been a series of injuries at your workplace? Do you need help investigating the root causes of these injuries? If an ammonia leak occurred in your plant, would you know what precautions your...
View ArticleBuilding an Active Membership to Secure Better Contracts
Over the last year, the UFCW has undergone a restructuring process so that resources are focused to growing UFCW membership. The UFCW is more powerful with more UFCW members, and that’s the key to...
View ArticleImmigration Reform for All Workers
These days everyone is talking about immigration. In our industries we know firsthand that our immigration system is broken and that corporations have hijacked it for their own profit. We’ve watched...
View ArticleHormel Workers Prepare to Take Workplace Unity into Chain-Wide Bargaining
As summer winds down, Hormel workers at five plants across the U.S. are gearing up for a round of bargaining that will have an impact not only on their wages and benefits, but on standards for workers...
View ArticleWork Safe: Monitor Line Speeds
In her nearly eight years on the job at the National Beef processing plant in Liberal, Kansas, Theresa Garcia has seen the injuries that workers suffer when line speeds are too fast. “Muscle strains,...
View ArticleUFCW Steward Aims to Strengthen Membership in America’s Heartland
Luis Rosiles, a Tyson Foods worker and steward for Local 1546, has found his calling as an organizer in training for the UFCW’s Heartland Campaign. Rosiles is part of a coordinated effort to target...
View Article>Check Out Our Latest Video
>The UFCW recently released this video to share information about the Employee Free Choice Act.
View Article>Wal-Mart’s Mixed Message for Mom
>Over the last couple of days you were likely to find an advertisement from Wal-Mart stuffed in your mailbox —twenty pages of smiling women and gift ideas for Mother’s Day. Beneath the surface of...
View ArticleUnity Means More Power for Workers
The UFCW has been empowering America’s workers for decades, fighting for better wages, good benefits and higher standards of living. Workers today face growing challenges and need unions now more than...
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>Happy New Year!
>From all your brothers and sisters at UFCW, may your new year be filled with justice and peace. Happy 2009. What are you most looking forward to in 2009? Passing the Employee Free Choice Act?...
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>Watch any good TV lately?
>Seen anything good on T.V. lately? No? Then you must not have been watching UFCW TV, a Voice and Vision for Working America. Check it out and tell us what your favorite video is! Have a video you...
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>Price Rite Worker Speaks Out on the Need for Employee Free Choice
> Today, a PriceRite worker involved in the UFCW’s PriceRite campaign spoke out about the need for Employee Free Choice at a press briefing held at the National Press Club. Representatives from the...
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>Hundreds Of Union Members To March In 56th Inaugural Parade
> From Change To Win In Washington, DC: January 20th is going to be an historic day! Oh, you think, I knew that. That’s when we’re going to be swearing in our first-ever African-American President...
View ArticleAsk Your Elected Officials to Support the Employee Free Choice Act
Celia Cisneros never imagined that she would need to harvest grapes for 12 hours a day during a hot California summer, just to make ends meet. But she had no other option — she was fired from her job...
View Article>NEW VIDEO: Walmart Workers for Change
>Walmart Workers for Change, a new campaign of thousands of Walmart’s 1.3 million associates across the country who are standing up and demanding a voice in the workplace, released a new video today...
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>Fixing the Gender Gap in Health Care Costs
> I am lucky enough to still be covered under my parents insurance as a full time college student. Out of curiosity I went online to check out insurance rates for men and women with the same...
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