UFCW Focuses on Worker Safety & Immigration in Meatpacking Industry

UFCW Focuses on Worker Safety & Immigration in Meatpacking Industry

  For Local 400 representative Misty Wrenn, it was an eye-opening, powerful experience. Having once worked for five years at the Smithfield pork plant in Smithfield, Va., Misty knew first-hand how tough conditions could be inside the facilities where animals are...
How Increasing Poultry Line Speeds Could Make Chicken Unsafe to Eat

How Increasing Poultry Line Speeds Could Make Chicken Unsafe to Eat

Oxfam estimates that each person eats 89 pounds of chicken a year – which means as a country, we’re eating close to 9 billion birds per year. It’s a major, multi-billion dollar industry that supplies us with chicken nuggets, wings, and the foundation for so many of...

Kroger Shop Steward Wins $250 in Back Pay for Coworker

For years now, Kristy Vance has seen managers, management trainees and loss prevention staff stocking shelves at her store, Kroger #402 in Blacksburg, Va. This not only violates the Kroger-Roanoke contract, which specifies that only bargaining unit members can stock...
Montgomery County Passes $15 Minimum Wage

Montgomery County Passes $15 Minimum Wage

Today, at a ceremony in Rockville, county council members signed legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 in Montgomery County, Maryland. The council unanimously passed legislation last week to raise the wage to $15 per hour for businesses employing 51 or more...
Special Labor Night Performance of The Pajama Game

Special Labor Night Performance of The Pajama Game

Update: Tickets are still available to the December 13 Labor Night at “The Pajama Game” at Arena Stage. Contact Isaac Evans directly at 202-600-4155 or email ievans@arenastage.org. They’re slightly more — $55 each — but you’ll still...