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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers [1] in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ... (UFCW) 1979 1,300,000 Retail store and distribution employees. 2008: UFCW: United Auto Workers (UAW) 1935 990,000
UFCW Local 1776 represents workers in the state of Pennsylvania for the United Food and Commercial Workers.The larger majority of their members work in grocery stores. The number 1776 refers to the year that the United States Declaration of Independence was drafted in Philadelphia, rather than it being a sequential number of local unions.
UFCW Local 832; UFCW Local 1776; United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America; United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1518 v KMart Canada Ltd; United Packinghouse Workers of America
William H. "Bill" Wynn (1932 – February 21, 2002) was the first president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), and the last president of the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU), after the latter merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America in 1979, to create the UFCW.
The union had actually reached an agreement on an 18.5-cent-an-hour minimum wage for unskilled workers on July 6, but the Employers' Association of Chicago broke an agreement to not discriminate against union members. AFL President Samuel Gompers begged the union not to strike, but the Amalgamated walked out. Gompers subsequently refused to ...
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After serving as the union's Region One director, Perrone returned to Washington and spent the next several years in a numbrer of senior UFCW positions. In 2004, he was elected UFCW international secretary-treasurer, and in 2014, with the retirement of Joseph T. Hansen , Perrone was elected the eighth international president of UFCW by the ...