Jul 18, 2017
Laurette Ford Organized Tenaciously Laurette Ford is a force of nature. For more than a decade as a Local 400 shop steward, she made it her mission to build her union by signing up as many new members as humanly possible. And she succeeded brilliantly. On June 30,...
Jun 27, 2017
Local 400 members working at Peapod, the grocery home delivery service from Giant Food, unanimously ratified a new union contract last night. The new collective bargaining agreement increases wages and holiday pay and improves working conditions for more than 200...
Nov 16, 2016
Local 400 members working at Safeway and Giant stores throughout the region voted to ratify new union contracts today. We didn’t get everything we wanted, but both contracts include several key improvements over our previous collective bargaining agreements,...
Nov 16, 2016
Be There to Vote November 16 We are pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with Giant that we’re prepared to recommend for ratification. We reached a similar tentative agreement with Safeway last week, and we’re eager to present both proposals...
Nov 13, 2016
Tentative Agreement Reached with Safeway, But Giant Refuses to Budge We have reached a tentative agreement with Safeway that we are prepared to recommend for ratification at our contract meeting on November 16. After more than a month of negotiations, after extending...
