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You’re Not Alone!

Hard working men and women are seeing their way of life on the verge of collapse as health insurance costs skyrocket, pensions disappear, and real wages stagnate.  The future of working families depends on a united voice that can stand up to powerful interests.

The working men and women of the UFCW are that voice.  UFCW members work in a number of different industries in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada but are concentrated in retail food, health care, public service, meatpacking, poultry, and other food processing industries. 

Every worker deserves affordable health insurance, prescription drug coverage, living wages, safe working conditions, equal opportunity, a secure pension and a voice in the workplace. The UFCW is working to make sure workers get their fair share.

Through UFCW negotiated contacts, more than 800,000 workers have fully paid health insurance and pension benefits.  UFCW members, in the retail food industry, earn 31 % more than their non-union counterparts.  UFCW members enjoy the security of a union contract and the strength of 1.4 million members behind them.   

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