United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1000

Workers at a CVS Pharmacy store in Spring Valley, Calif., voted to join UFCW Local 135 for workplace protections during this pandemic, joining colleagues at 57 other CVS Pharmacy stores that are represented by the local.

Touching story involving our hardworking Local 1000 Cake Decorators Shelly and Connie from Kroger 575 in Rockwall.

Health care workers at Villa at Osseo nursing home, ratified first union contracts that raise wages and improve working conditions. Highlights of the new 2-year contracts include guaranteed wage increases and premiums and improvements to working conditions and workplace rights – including union representation, a grievance procedure, and discipline only for just cause.

Housing Works Employees Stand Together for a Better Life & Unionize. Housing Works is a nonprofit that works with people living with and affected by HIV/AIDs and homelessness, and the workers in the bargaining unit handle maintenance, legal work, casework, social work, health care and retail at Housing Works facilities.

Cafeteria managers who are employed by the Norwich Public School System in Norwich, Conn., joined UFCW Local 371 for a better life.

Members of UFCW Local 5 who work at a cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, recently ratified an industry-leading contract that raises wages and improves benefits.

“We won! Through a pandemic, we worked together to secure a contract for a better tomorrow,” they said. The 182 technical workers are employed in jobs such as respiratory therapists, as well as emergency room, pharmacy, and lab technicians and other jobs to help care for patients.

Workers at DC Holistic Wellness, a Black-owned cannabis dispensary in Washington, D.C., made history by becoming the first cannabis dispensary in the nation’s capital to unionize and ratify their first collective bargaining agreement.

About 20 maintenance workers at a ShopRite store in East Orange, N.J., ratified their first contract on Nov. 12. The workers joined UFCW Local 1262 because they wanted the same wages and benefits as their unionized colleagues who work in the front-end of the store and in the meat and deli section.