Talk about adding insult to injury. For Local 400 member Angela Chiles, who works at Kroger #501 in North Chesterfield, VA, it was bad enough when she tripped on a piece of plastic in her store’s receiving area and severely injured her knee. Repairing the knee...
Corey Hicks is a champion for his Local 400 sisters and brothers. An electrical instrumentation technician at the Lipton plant in Suffolk, VA, he was a leader in organizing the workers in 2016. Ever since, he has served as a shop steward, fighting for his fellow...
Deborah Talley learned about the value of Local 400 representation the hard way. Not long after she started working at the Boar’s Head plant in Petersburg, VA, a new supervisor came on board and Deborah was assigned to train her. But then, things took a strange twist....
Army Special Forces Veteran, Longtime Union Leader Honored Longtime UFCW Local 400 leader Sterling Ball was inducted into the Southwestern District Labor Council Hall of Fame on October 22 at a dinner in Huntington, WV, where he was honored for his 47-year career as a...
UFCW Local 400 representative Steve Meador was recently named Man of the Year by the Western Virginia Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). He received the award at the Bread and Roses Labor Awards Dinner in Roanoke for his dedication to the labor...
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...
