We’re Fired Up & Ready for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway!

We’re Fired Up & Ready for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway!

On September 12, 2019 – before negotiations on our next contract even began – we held a powerful Rally for a Fair Contract that made it clear to both companies that we will do whatever it takes for a fair deal. Read our recap of the rally and view photos on the UFCW...
Sep 12: Rally for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway

Sep 12: Rally for a Fair Contract at Giant & Safeway

Are you ready to fight for a fair contract at Giant & Safeway? Are you sick of your store being understaffed? Not getting enough hours? Being asked to do two jobs for the price of one? Negotiations with Giant & Safeway on our next union contract will begin in...
Local 400 Stands in Solidarity with Striking Stop & Shop Workers

Local 400 Stands in Solidarity with Striking Stop & Shop Workers

This afternoon, 31,000 UFCW members working at Stop & Shop stores in New England walked off the job. Stop & Shop—like Giant Food in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia—is a banner of the Dutch-Belgian conglomerate Ahold Delhaize. Stop & Shop workers...
Giant Food Member Wins Grievance, Keeps Job, Gets Back Pay

Giant Food Member Wins Grievance, Keeps Job, Gets Back Pay

For Loan Cao, it was seven-week ordeal, but thanks to her union, it was one with a happy ending. A 29-year Local 400 member who works in the front end at Giant Food #795 in Springfield, Va., Loan was suddenly fired on December 11, 2018. She was alleged to have done...
Shop Steward Opens Her Home to Struggling Coworkers

Shop Steward Opens Her Home to Struggling Coworkers

It was in the Winter of 2013. The weather was brutally cold and snow was on the ground. A young woman working in the salad bar at Giant #123 in Temple Hills, Md., had fallen on hard times and lost her home. Fortunately, her shop steward was Bernadette...