Mar 17, 2017
Contract Negotiations Update #3 Mark Your Calendars: Lipton Union Membership Meetings April 25 & 26 After another two days of negotiations with Lipton this week, we are all in high spirits. We still have a few remaining issues to work out, but we have made...
Mar 10, 2017
Local 400 member Tracey Anne Goroza from Safeway #1300 in McLean, Va. is the most recent winner of our Active Ballot Club drawing! Congratulations, Tracey! All across the country, corporations and the ultra-wealthy are funneling unprecedented amounts of money into our...
Mar 8, 2017
Starting in 2020, D.C. workers can take up to two weeks of paid sick leave, six weeks paid time off to care for sick loved ones and eight weeks of paid time off for new parents In a landmark victory for workers in the nation’s capital, the District of Columbia has...
Mar 7, 2017
Lipton Contract Negotiations Update #2: March 3, 2017 We know that you are eager for an update on where we are with our contract negotiations, and we are pleased to report that real progress is being made. We heard your requests to share more information and that’s...
Feb 28, 2017
Join Local 400 for the People’s Climate March on April 29th in Washington, DC Climate change is already causing major problems. We see it in record high temperatures, increasingly severe weather, and rising sea levels. And unless we take bold action now, it will only...
Feb 28, 2017
For Local 400 Organizer Michael Sampson, it was “an opportunity to speak truth to power.” Then-Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-Ala.) was testifying at a hearing on his nomination by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general. But Sessions...