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Meat Processing Workers in Colorado Stand Together for a Better Life

Quality Assurance workers at Denver Processing unanimously voted to join UFCW Local 7 on Oct. 4. The workers are excited to become a part of the existing contract that UFCW Local 7 already has in place for production workers at the facility.

Denver Processing is a meat processing facility located in Denver that cuts all the beef and pork for the King Soopers grocery stores (a division of Kroger) in Colorado. The Quality Assurance workers look forward to having union health care and pension benefits, as well as the other protections the contract provides. Additional issues they look forward to addressing include the personal time and sick days that were previously cut by the company.

These workers are happy to be a part of our union family. “I am very excited and ready to be part of the union because we will have better benefits,” said María Avalos.

New Scholarships Available for Creating Change Conference in Dallas

Scholarship recipients celebrate at the 2019 Creating Change Conference, which was held in Detroit earlier this year.

UFCW OUTreach is offering scholarships for members to attend next year’s Creating Change Conference in Dallas.

The Jan. 15 to 19, 2020 conference is organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force and is the foremost political, leadership and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ+ social justice movement.

Scholarship recipients will learn more about a broad range of social justice issues and develop skills to bring back to their workplaces and local unions. Past session topics have included labor, gender equality, community organizing, criminal justice, immigration and more.

In recent years, UFCW OUTreach Executive Board members have served as a key voice for working class and labor issues at this conference. In a time where the labor movement and everything we have fought for is under attack, UFCW OUTreach is dedicated to strengthening social and economic justice. With collaborations like these, our union family is able to advance full equality for LGBTQ+ workers at work and in their local unions. This effort reflects the UFCW’s commitment to building a resilient working class, united in strengthening economic opportunities for all workers.

The submission deadline for the scholarships is Friday, Nov.15. For more information about these scholarships or to apply, visit the new UFCW OUTreach website here.

If you have any questions or want to learn more about UFCW OUTreach, please contact Michele Kessler at MKessler@ufcw1776.org, Kim Frost at kim@local1102.org or Jean Tong at jean.tong@ufcw770.org.