Source: The Globe The JBS Code of Conduct and Ethics states that JBS is committed to providing a safe work environment, yet their employees marched Thursday evening to request more health and safety protections. The workers could be heard chanting “We want more!” Many workers at JBS are members of [...]
By Sarah Lazare Source: Workday Magazine Monica Duque never knows how many hours she is going to get in a given week. She works at the Jerry’s Cub Foods on East Lake Street at the front of the store, helping customers, overseeing cashiering, and running online shopping. She finds out [...]
By Amie Stager Source: Workday Magazine The past year and a half, let alone the past four years, have been busy for grocery store workers in Minnesota, especially union members who have been in contract negotiations. Thousands of metro-area UFCW Local 663 members at UNFI Cub Foods, Lunds & Byerlys, [...]
Source: Brainerd Dispatch A tentative agreement was reached in Brainerd Monday, April 22, between United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663, Quisberg’s and Miner’s grocery food stores in Brainerd Baxter, Crosby and Pequot Lakes. Union members were informed of the tentative agreement and were learning more about it, Jessica Hayssen, [...]
By Jeff McMahon Source: WJON.com Workers at grocery stores in Brainerd, Baxter, Crosby, and Pequot Lakes have rejected their latest contract offer. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 rejected the offer from Quisberg’s and Miner’s grocery stores after holding a four-day unfair labor practice strike from [...]
By Lisa Xu Source: Labor Notes It wasn’t such a merry Christmas for grocery store management in central Minnesota. Five hundred grocery workers in the Brainerd Lakes area walked out on an unfair labor practice strike, deserting five stores between December 22 and 25. Management tried to keep the stores [...]
Source: MPR News More than 500 grocery store workers in the Brainerd Lakes area started a planned four-day strike Friday. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 work at Cub Foods, SuperValu and Super One Foods stores in Brainerd, Baxter, Crosby and Pequot Lakes. The stores are [...]
By Morgan Reddekopp Source: KSTP-TV Workers at Hormel represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 663 in Austin reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night, according to a news release from the union. The details of the tentative agreement will be shared with union members in meetings this weekend. [...]
By Aaliyah Demry Source: MPR News Union workers at Lunds & Byerlys grocery stores announced Tuesday they’ve reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, averting a strike that was set to begin later this week. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 said the deal includes significant raises by [...]
By Nick Longworth Source: FOX 9 Minnesota Claiming a lack of protections since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as they "kept Minnesotans fed," more than 3,000 grocery store workers declared their intent to hold a vote to strike on Tuesday. United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) workers who are United [...]