Sep 11, 2020
Jacqueline Echavarria, a 22-year Local 400 member who works as a cashier at the Petworth Safeway, was selected as one of the three Biden-Harris campaign delegates to the Electoral College from the District of Columbia. With Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala...
Sep 1, 2020
With workplace cases continuing to accumulate, union grocery workers staging 18 simultaneous protests to reinstate hazard pay at Giant, Safeway & Kroger LANDOVER, MD (September 1, 2020) – Union grocery workers from Giant, Safeway and Kroger grocery stores...
Sep 1, 2020
Join us on Thursday, September 3rd to demand hazard pay for grocery workers on the frontlines. We’re organizing 18 simultaneous actions at Giant, Safeway and Kroger stores throughout the area to call on these grocery chains to immediately reinstate hazard pay. Action...
Aug 31, 2020
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...
Aug 28, 2020
Despite weeks of demanding Kroger extend its $2/hour “hero pay” program, the company has refused – even as cases continue to mount at stores throughout our jurisdiction. Now, instead of compensating hard-working Kroger associates on the frontlines, the company...
