The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing about 1.2 million workers in the United States and Canada, especially in grocery, retail, food processing, meatpacking, pharmacies, healthcare, manufacturing, and related industries. Its mission is to improve wages, benefits, working conditions, workplace safety, and worker power through organizing, collective bargaining, and advocacy.
Workplace organizing and union rights, collective bargaining, wages and benefits, workplace safety and health, labor standards, paid leave, healthcare, retirement security, consumer and food-industry issues, and legislation affecting workers in essential industries.
Primarily funded by member dues and related union revenues.
AFL-CIO; UFCW local unions; UFCW Canada; union members and elected officers such as the International President and local union leadership.
Labor union; 501(c)(5) nonprofit organization
