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Welcome to UFCW Local 367, representing 7,500 members in Pierce, Mason, Thurston, Pacific, Lewis, and Grays Harbor Counties.

  UFCW Local 367 has been representing members since 1934. We are chartered by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union which represents over one million members in the United State and Canada, making it one of the largest unions in North America. UFCW members work in many different industries, including retail food, retail meat, health care, processing, department stores, drug stores, and manufacturing.

  Since 1934, we have been committed to improving the economic and social status of our members. We strive to provide excellent membership service and to bargain good contracts. The wages and benefits set forth in our union contracts have been achieved through years of hard work by the members that came before us.

  Our job now is to keep what we have and steadily make improvements. We need you to be part of that process. If you need a union, call us. If you are a member of this union, get involved!

Remember ...  Nothing works without the clerks!
 

Macy’s Workers Handbill Tacoma Mall

 

On Wednesday, March 24, Macy’s employees went public with their contract problems. They were out in force at Tacoma Mall, at all Macy’s entrances, and patrolling the corridors of the Mall. They were dressed in bright red shirts and carried bright red balloons, all emblazoned with the rallying cry, “Fair Contract Now!” Many Mall customers, wondering what was all the fuss, asked for and received handouts ticking off the takeaways being demanded by company negotiators. Among the issues put  in the spotlight (“This is a Macy’s Parade You’re Not Going to Like”) were the company demands to:

Change health care insurance and reduce benefits without negotiations;
Eliminate current wage scales and pay newly-hired employees minimum wage;
Eliminate commissions employees currently receive; and
Eliminate a paid holiday.

One primary concern for the workers is that the company is willing only to guarantee their current health care plans for one year. The national health care bill just passed should provide Macy’s stability in the area of health benefits. Their stock went up 5% the day after passage. Yet they are asking in negotiations for the freedom to degrade the employees’ coverage after one year.

The primary reason that Macy’s stock went up was their expected new business as the economy picks up, and the greater profits that will result. It is ironic that the company at the same time is proposing to take away the salespersons’ commissions, the prime way that the employees, too, could share in the pickup of business.

Another company proposal is that new employees be hired at minimum wage, eligible only for merit increases at the company’s discretion. This means that many of the employees would have no guaranteed annual wage increase. Yet another proposal is that the current regular work scheduling be revoked in favor of random scheduling, a concern for workers who must arrange children’s day care.

Terry Warren, a member of the Union’s bargaining committee, commented, “We need respect, and to be appreciated for what we do– and paying us the minimum wage doesn’t do that!”