Monthly Archives: February 2021

UFCW members will have an opportunity to participate in a virtual town hall meeting with Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday, Feb. 25. Dr. Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, also served as one of the lead members of the previous administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force.  

UFCW members will participate in the town hall meeting on Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time and will ask Dr. Fauci questions related to the COVID-19 vaccination process and other issues relating to the pandemic. We are asking each local to reach out to their members to film video questions ahead of the town hall meeting using the UFCW’s Soapboxx tool. UFCW members are also encouraged to submit questions to Dr. Fauci here.

The town hall meeting will be livestreamed on the UFCW’s Facebook page. Locals interested in obtaining materials about the townhall meeting can contact Jess Raimundo in the Communications Department at jraimundo@ufcw.org.

On Feb. 8, meat, seafood and deli workers at a Safeway store in Denver joined UFCW Local 7 for the better wages and benefits that come with a union contract.

The 17 workers joined our union family via a card check election because they wanted a voice in the workplace and the same wages and benefits as their unionized colleagues at the store. Because of existing contract language pertaining to organizing, the local was able to obtain a neutrality agreement from the employer and the new members of UFCW Local 7 have been added into the current contract. The entire unit in Safeway store #839 is now comprised of 69 workers and the store is now wall-to-wall union.

“When workers recognize their true value and recognize their own solidarity, they win! We are honored to have the privilege to represent essential heroes,” said UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova.