United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 135

My daughter works for grocery chain now and this is her Union. She needed to pay her dues. She was in and out and so far so good

This union office is overstaff by overpaid incompetent idiots. They will lose your employment paperwork, and benefit paperwork, then tell you that you have to appeal to get reinstated, and then when reinstated, you will have to pay back dues even though you were denied all benefits. On top of this, if you have to go see a doctor, you will be billed by the doctors office because the union will deny every receiving a bill, and then they will ask you to send the bill directly to them, and then respond to the bill only if its pass due and sent to collections, telling you to pay for it and they will reimburse you… only later on say they are refusing to issue a check, bc the bill was already paid for by the member… and that the member made the mistake for initially paying.
When I brought this up to them. They had a spanish speaking lady call me back and threaten me in spanish and broken english, saying I was in the wrong, and that if I push this any further I would lose my benefits. The irony in this is that I don’t speak spanish, so I’m assuming they are trying to intimidate their spanish union members to keep quiet. When I told the idiot on the phone I dont speak spanish, she hung up. I then get a letter from them saying they had made a mistake. HOwever, they still wont pay the bill or reimburse you. seriously a bunch of incompetent idiots.
And the UFCW wonders why they are getting weaker and losing the support of the public and support from their very own members. Like most of my coworkers, I secretly yearn for the day we can vote to either de-​unionize or get new representation.
FYI, most union members make minimum wage… guess how much the staff at this office makes? Take a wild guess…100,000 to 200,000 plus per year with full benefits… Hmmmm… food for thought.

This union truly cares for it’s employees. There are many things that you can do to get involved in your union and make the change for the better, not only your coworkers, but of the other companies that are a part of the union as well. The union dues in my opinion are cheap for what it is that you will be receiving. I only pay $ 8.05 a week and you have the opportunity to receive benefits, pension and discounts to very popular theme parks and movie theaters. There are a lot of benefits that come from joining union 135. I feel like the union dues pays for itself.
My previous job was in union as well, but the dues were $ 20 from each check. There were never any opportunities to go to a union meeting and never any opportunities to volunteer. It just seemed like the union from my previous job had no interest in it’s employees or its community, but just for the money. So, in comparison to union 135 I’m very pleased and I’m very happy.

high monthly dues, and hourly wage concessions given to the major chain grocery stores in the last 3 years makes me think the UFCW 135 is really a deceptive front for the grocery chains.