The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is the largest private sector union in the United States, representing 1.2 million workers and their families in grocery, meatpacking, food processing, health care, cannabis, retail, and other essential industries.

UFCW members serve our communities in all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and belong to more than 300 local unions.

UFCW members are:

• ADVOCATES for grocery, retail, meat packing, and food processing workers.
  Together in our union, UFCW members work to improve wages, benefits, and conditions on the job. We negotiate with our employers to make sure they compensate workers with kind of pay and benefits that allow us the dignity of a fair paycheck and the ability to support ourselves.
  We advocate for laws and policies that bring up the economic standards in our communities, and we work to elect candidates who really go to bat for working people. We organize, inspire, and mobilize our co-workers, neighbors, and communities and bring people into our nationwide movement for social and economic justice.

• A COLLECTIVE VOICE for working people and the middle class.
  We join together in our union because we know the fate of the American worker can’t be left entirely in the hands of the wealthiest one percent. After all, no one knows the issues that impact working America better than the workers themselves.

• A UNION of worker-activists fighting for social and economic justice, and the American Dream.
  We know and understand what workers face on the job. Workers need career jobs with affordable health care; decent, middle-class wages; and safe working environments. We work to improve the opportunities for families. We work to improve jobs so we can turn our dreams into reality and raise standards for everyone.