REEDVILLE, Va. (October 27, 2025) — The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 Union has released a new video highlighting the voices of its members who work as commercial fishermen in the Atlantic menhaden fishery. The video showcases the pride,...
Make Our Voices Heard in the Corridors of Power Local 400 members from Virginia and West Virginia recently traveled to their state capitols to meet with their state legislators, give testimony, and urge action to improve our members’ lives. Shop stewards Janet...
Local 400 members working at Ocean Harvesters, based in Reedville, VA, have ratified a strong new collective bargaining agreement. For more than 100 years, the workers have been committed to fishing menhaden fish in a responsible manner; equally respecting the...
Our very own Kenny Pinkard, longtime union member and UFCW Local 400 Executive Board Vice President, was recently featured in Chesapeakeville, a journal of Virginia Seafood, Waterman, and Maritime Culture written and published by Timothy Thompson. The article...
Today, UFCW Local 400 President Mark Federici renewed our call on all the employers where our members work to immediately reinstate hazard pay. His letter to employers reads, in part: “Cases of COVID-19 are spiking once again due to the highly contagious Omicron...
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...
