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Issue #7 - Summer 2026
In These Times: ‘Grocery Workers VS Goliath’
Originally published in In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.
Negotiations Heating Up in SoCal — Essential Voice Strike Ready Edition #4
Southern California members in UFCW Locals 8-GS, 135, 324, 770, 1167, 1428 and 1442 are building towards strike-readiness to win a strong contract as management makes subpar offers.
WATCH: Kroger & Albertsons by the Numbers
Watch the recording from our webinar, “Kroger and Albertsons by the Numbers.” UFCW members from across the country attended our webinar to get the facts on grocery greed in this year’s contract negotiations.
Solidarity Saturdays Show Power! Essential Voice Strike Ready Edition #3
CO Grocery Workers Stand United for a Strong Contract
Essential Voice: News for Essential Workers - Issue #3, Spring 2025
Essential Voice, Issue #3 - Spring 2025
The Nation: ‘Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers.’
Workers are on the front lines of an increasingly bleak shopping experience, and they bear the costs of understaffing, underinvestment in facilities, and feeble safety measures.
Workday: ‘How 9,000 Grocery Workers Are Banding Together in Minnesota’
Workers are in coordinated bargaining, and demanding better staffing, secure retirement, and good healthcare.
‘5 Years On, Front-Line Workers Still Grappling With COVID’s Impact’
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 770 union and LAANE, have released the results of a survey probing the experiences of front-line essential grocery store and drug retail workers during that period and the lasting effects on them years later.
How Solidarity Helped Workers Win in Colorado: Essential Voice Strike Ready Edition #1
In February, 12,000 King Soopers (Kroger) grocery workers across Colorado went on strike for nearly two weeks with UFCW Local 7. In the end, they won a return to work agreement that allows them to align their contracts with the more than 100,000 grocery workers bargaining contracts across the country this year. Here’s how solidarity helped them do it.