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This week, labor leaders from across the country descended on New Orleans to map out the path ahead for our movement. From trade and public education to equal pay and paid leave to back pay for federal contract workers and bargaining power for all, the AFL-CIO Executive Council tackled the issues that will define working people’s fight for economic justice in 2019 and beyond.

Did you know your UFCW membership gives you access to a number of money saving coupons and discounts? Right now, UFCW members can save up to $20 on TurboTax Federal Products.

Scholarship Application for Union Members - Deadline: May 31, 2019

Scholarship Application for High School Seniors - Deadline: May 31, 2019

Colleen Sullivan Memorial Nursing Vocation Scholarship - Deadline: May 24, 2019

Lou Sarno Memorial Scholarship - Deadline: May 24, 2019

 

 

The Donald Trump administration is proposing a new overtime regulation that would protect at least 2.8 million fewer workers than the overtime regulation proposed by the Barack Obama administration in 2016.

The reports of Amazon’s Whole Foods cutting worker hours is the worst case of bait and switch I’ve ever seen. Just months ago, they told the American people and their workers that they were raising their minimum wage to $15.00 per hour. But now it appears that this was all a public relations stunt as they are now cutting worker hours – which is a cruel pay cut, plain and simple.

UFCW Local 1459 members gave unanimous support to authorize a strike against their employer, Stop & Shop supermarkets, owned by global retailing giant Ahold Delhaize, a profitable Dutch international company. The vote was taken Sunday morning amongst a very strong turnout of hundreds of Stop & Shop workers at the Castle of the Knights in Chicopee, MA. Local 1459 represents approximately 2,000 Stop & Shop workers in its Western Massachusetts stores.

Remember to come to the meeting this Sunday, March 10th 10 am at 1599 Memorial Drive, Chicopee MA. Saturday night is end of Daylight Savings so set your clock forward 1 hour that evening.

A report today from the Wall Street Journal claims Amazon plans to open a new grocery US grocery chain that would be separate from Whole Foods, which was purchased by Amazon in 2017 for roughly $13.5 billion.

AT&T is the only nationwide unionized wireless carrier. When you choose AT&T, you support the nearly 150,000 union members employed there.

As UFCW Local 1459 continues to negotiate a successor contract with the Stop & Shop Company, we learned today that UFCW Local 342 in New York has pulled 58 stores out on strike. Local 342 has been met with many of the same economic takeaways in bargaining that we have seen from the company in recent days.

We will continue to negotiate in unity with the other New England Locals to bring back a fair
Contract that all of you deserve. Rest assured that we will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this happens.

We are in the process of scheduling a union meeting to address contract negotiations so please stay informed. 

In Solidarity,

Tyrone C. Housey
President
 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently heard oral arguments on the lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is one of the leading organizations bringing the suit. Following oral arguments, UFCW President Marc Perrone released the following statement: