UFCW Local 555 is proud to work with the Northwest Hope Foundation who offers this Scholarship Program to UFCW Local 555 members and their families.

The Northwest Hope Foundation raises money for the Scholarship Program as well as ongoing support for Leukemia research through the Annual UFCW Golf Tournament. Please support the 2010 Scholarship Program by participating in the UFCW Local 555 Golf Tournament on June 3, 2010.

This year we are pleased to announce that there will be up to thirteen (13) scholarship awards of up to $2,000 each.  The scholarships must be used at; any accredited college or university, technical or vocational school, or junior community college for any course of study. The award is to help pay for tuition, fees, books, educational expenses and educational materials for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Bend Area Safeway members ratify new grocery and meat agreement. Congratulations to all the Bend Area members who united in strength and solidarity to improve wages, restore affordable healthcare, and secure pension benefits.

Albertsons and Fred Meyer members work as hard as Safeway members and certainly deserve nothing less than those at Safeway. We will continue to work toward a settlement that will mirror that of the ratified agreements of the Safeway members. Stay tuned for more information.

Contract Ratification Meeting!!

Who: Safeway Grocery and Meat members in the Bend contract area will be able to vote.

Fred Meyer and Albertsons members may attend for informational purposes.

When: Friday, January 29, 2010 - 9am or 2pm or 7pm

Where: Red Lion - Broken Top Room - 1415 NE 3rd - Bend, OR 97701

Following marathon negotiations on December 17th between UFCW Local 555 and Bimbo Bakeries USA, the union negotiating committee reached a fully-recommended settlement with the company.

Highlights of the proposed contract offer included a 60% reduction in monthly out-of-pocket health insurance premiums, the addition of stepchildren, stepparents, and grandchildren covered by funeral leave, political dues checkoff, wage increases amounting to 75 cents over the four years of the contract and protection against increased medical costs for union members and their families during the life of the agreement.
Bargaining unit members were ably represented by committee members Robin Brown (Albany) and Cindy Huffman (Beaverton) and chief negotiator, Brad Witt.

“Cindy and Robin are to be congratulated for their enormous contributions in obtaining the fully-recommended settlement,” said Witt.  “They alone deserve credit for our Oroweat members getting wage increases in all four years of the contract .  No question about it,” he emphasized, “those two ladies brought home the bacon for their co-workers.”

The settlement offer was overwhelmingly approved by a vote of the membership during a ratification meeting held on Tuesday night, January 19th at Local 555 headquarters in Tigard.