Mar 7, 2016
Will the company share the wealth with workers who produced it? Kroger earned $2.4 billion in profits in 2015, setting an all-time record for the prosperous company and putting the lie to its bargaining-table cries of poverty. The largest traditional grocery chain in...
Mar 2, 2016
Mary Little doesn’t take no for an answer. Whether at her store—Kroger #408 in Lynchburg, Va.—or two dozen others, she organizes relentlessly, signing up new members right and left. “I tell ‘em straight up the benefits of being in our union,” she said. “It’s important...
Mar 2, 2016
This week, we began negotiating our new contract with Kroger in Roanoke, Virginia. Your collective bargaining contract with Kroger covers important aspects of your employment, including wages, schedules, and benefits. The current contract expires April 2, 2016, and we...
Feb 23, 2016
Member Spotlight: William Ivey, Community Leader When William Ivey says, “We try to give back to the community,” he’s not kidding. A Local 400 member working as a sanitation specialist at Boar’s Head in Jarratt, Va., for the past 12 years, Billy goes far above and...
Feb 23, 2016
On Sunday, we were proud to open a new office space in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The community greeted us with more than sixty attendees – and food for another 150! The attendees reflected the increasingly diverse constituencies of the surrounding region, which included...
