UFCW is the union for food / beverage processing and production workers.
UFCW represents thousands of workers at food/beverage processing and production facilities across the country – including major companies like Campbells, Pepsi, Kraft, Welch’s, Quaker Oats, Coca-Cola, Keurig, and more! We believe that your work deserves respect AND the wages and benefits to back it up.
When you have a union, you have a voice – made strong by you and your coworkers’ ability to work with your employer and win better working conditions in a written contract. With a union, you can speak out or stop the line when your safety is at risk, and you get a say in the health and safety standards that govern your workplace to begin with.
A union contract gives you and your coworkers the power to establish a standard operating procedure that ensures everyone in your facility follows the same guidelines. In your contract, you can win essential benefits and protections like consistent schedules, paid vacation and sick time, guaranteed raises, and seniority benefits – giving you the work-life balance, financial stability, and the recognition you deserve.
While there are many unionized food and beverage production facilities and warehouses across our communities, there are still plenty of workplaces without a strong union. But UFCW wants to help you and your coworkers change that! No matter where you work or what you’re producing – you deserve a union contract and the benefits that come with it.
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What Are Food/Beverage Production Workers Winning With Their Unions?
Better Raises and Overtime Pay
Having a union means having a voice. That’s how food and beverage workers nationwide have secured guaranteed yearly raises in their contacts on top of already competitive wages. Many production staff have also bargained for overtime pay – providing them with time-and-a-half wages on shifts over 8 hours.
Higher Safety Standards
You should never have to work without the proper training or PPE. When you have a union contract, you can secure proper equipment,regular training, and anything else you need to do your best work. Then, you can hold your facility accountable to those standards.
Work-Life Balance
You deserve to not only be able to make a living wage, but be given the time to enjoy your life. Thankfully, with a union, you can fight for schedules and policies that help you establish better work-life balance. For example, at facilities like our Nestle plant in St. Louis, MO, union workers have won a maximum of 12 hours in a day or 60 hours in a week, unless they choose otherwise.
Protections Against Favoritism
When you have a union, it’s your experience and expertise that matters most – not who’s closest to management. Everyone in your facility deserves to be treated equally and with respect. That’s why food/beverage production specialists are using their unions to fight for written protections against favoritism and other kinds of unfair treatment.
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