Thomas P. McNutt, UFCW Local 400 President
Empowering Working Families to Improve Their Lives
Welcome to the website of United Food & Commercial Workers’ Local 400, proudly representing 37,000 workers in the retail food, retail, health care, law enforcement, food processing, service and other industries in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
UFCW Local 400 exists to empower our members—and all working families—to improve their lives. We fulfill this mission by:
- Engaging in collective bargaining, negotiating contracts that provide our members with industry-leading wages you can raise a family on, good health benefits, retirement security and a voice on the job.
- Ensuring that our members are treated with dignity, respect and fairness by management.
- Protecting our members’ safety and health in the workplace.
- Conducting legislative and political advocacy to make our members’ voices heard in the corridors of power and winning policies that help working families gain opportunity and security.
- Fighting to expand the union market share of our industries.
- Fighting to increase the power of workers, raise their standard of living, and make life better for their families.
- Working together with our communities to help raise the economic standing and quality of life for all working families.
Local 400’s greatest strength lies in our members—hard-working men and women from all walks of life who are the most productive workers in their professions and pillars of their communities. That’s why member activists are at the heart of everything we do. They talk with their fellow workers about why joining Local 400 is the best investment they can make for a better future. They talk with their neighbors about how unions are the one force left in society fighting to restore our standard of living and save the middle class. Our members volunteer in a host of efforts to improve the quality of life in our communities.
Joining Local 400—or any union—is the single best step workers can take to regain control of their destiny. If you haven’t done so already, I hope you will join with us and be a part of the greatest movement for social and economic justice, job and financial security, and equal opportunity in the history of our great nation.
