Local 400 member Ashley Owens from Safeway #4205 in Washington, DC is the most recent winner of our Active Ballot Club drawing! Congratulations, Ashley! All across the country, corporations and the ultra-wealthy are funneling unprecedented amounts of money into our...
Apply by Friday, August 11, 2017 Being a shop steward means stepping up to play a key role in building our union. While not always an easy job, the role of a steward can be deeply rewarding—and something to be proud of. The shop steward is a key “link” in our union....
What do you want in your next Kroger contract? Join us for an upcoming union contract meeting to help us to shape our strategy and prioritize our goals for contract negotiations. Your input will help us put together proposals well in advance of the actual contract...
If you work at a Kroger store in the Roanoke region, you know courtesy clerks have a tough job to do. They are the lowest paid employees in the store and have little to no opportunity for advancement. Kroger justifies this practice by saying courtesy clerks are only...
Banks Stamps, Jr., has worked at DanChem Technologies in Danville, Va., for 42 years, and he became a shop steward in 2004 after a 10-month-long strike. One of his top priorities ever since has been to build a worker-run safety program to better protect members’...
Workers from the nation’s only Lipton tea plant voted overwhelmingly to approve their first union contract at a mass meeting in Suffolk on Monday, July 24, 2017. This represents the first time in the history of the plant when workers were given the opportunity to vote...
