20 Facts About UFCW

UFCW is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress and the AFL–CIO; it disaffiliated from the AFL–CIO in 2005 but reaffiliated in 2013.

UFCW was created through the merger of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America union and Retail Clerks International Union, following the new union's founding convention in June 1979.

The UFCW continued to expand both by organizing and merging with several smaller unions between 1980 and 1998.

In 1980, the Barbers, Beauticians and Allied Industries International Association merged with UFCW, followed a year later by the United Retail Workers Union.

UFCW held its first regular international convention in Montreal, Canada, in 1983.

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The UFCW ultimately struck a deal with Hormel management, seized control of Local P-9, and removed the local union leaders, actions that dealt a blow to the credibility of the UFCW in the eyes of others in the larger labor movement.

UFCW was elected for two consecutive terms as international president by delegates to the UFCW's Regular International Conventions in 2008 and 2013.

In 2005, Hansen announced the UFCW was leaving the AFL–CIO, and joined six other unions – the Teamsters, SEIU, UNITE-HERE, Laborers, United Farm Workers and Carpenters – in creating a new labor federation, the Change to Win Federation.

UFCW has attempted to organize agricultural workers in Ontario, Canada, since 1995, when the provincial government passed legislation prohibiting those workers from joining unions.

Between May 2010 and June 2011, more California business owners signed a neutrality agreement with UFCW, including Humboldt Bay Wellness Center and 707 Cannabis College in the Emerald Triangle of the California north coast.

UFCW pled guilty in 2017 and served 37 months in federal prison.

On October 11,2003, the UFCW declared a strike on Vons, in Southern California, because of company-proposed changes to the new labor contract.

Strike ended on February 26,2004 when the UFCW and affected companies reached an agreement on a new contract.

The UFCW had repeatedly attempted to organize the company's Bladen County, North Carolina meat-packing plant, but Smithfield Foods resisted this organizing.

In 2007, Smithfield filed a federal lawsuit against the UFCW citing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, claiming that the union orchestrated a public smear campaign to hurt Smithfield's business as a method of extorting the company.

Walmart, a non-unionized company, has repeatedly been accused by the UFCW of treating its workers poorly and driving down employment standards.

The UFCW has repeatedly attempted to organize the chain, but these attempts have been unsuccessful in the United States.

In Canada, the UFCW managed to win union recognition at two Walmart stores in Quebec and one in Saskatchewan.

UFCW named Radio Campesina, Councilman Michael Nowakosky, and Reverend Trina Zelle as defendants.

UFCW's PAC spent $673,309 in independent expenditures promoting the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and contributed $1.