Our members work in grocery stores, food processing and meat packing facilities, nursing facilities, banks, insurance companies, vision clinics, tanneries, canneries, and food manufacturing plants across WI and the U.P of Michigan. Our members work in many different settings, but regardless of where they work, UFCW members are essential workers performing vital services to their […]
Read MoreThe United Food and Commercial Workers International Union was founded in 1978 by the merger between 2 powerful unions, the Retail Clerks International Union and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Similarly, UFCW Local 1473 was formed by a merger between Local 1444 (Retail Clerks) and 73A (Meat Cutters) in the […]
Read MoreWe are a diverse union, both in sectors and in workforce. We were and always have been involved in the struggle for Civil and Human Rights. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in our headquarters in Detroit, MI. Hopefully in 10 years we will be growing and adapting […]
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