Stand with Fred Meyer Workers – Shop Somewhere Else!
- Oregon AFL-CIO
- Sep 5, 2024
- 1 min read
UFCW Local 555 is calling for a boycott of Fred Meyer stores. More than 4,500 Portland-area Fred Meyer workers just wrapped up a six-day Unfair Labor Practice strike that drew huge support from fellow union members and the community at large. Unfortunately, Kroger management has failed to commit to ending unfair labor practices or held up their end at the bargaining table.
Not only are they refusing to do right by their workers, Kroger is hurting shoppers as well. Evidence of deliberate price-gouging was revealed during FTC questioning over the proposed Kroger-Albertson’s merger.
That’s why Fred Meyer workers are calling on the community to shop somewhere else until Kroger stops price gouging, and until workers get a fair contract that:
Ensures fair wages
Secures health & welfare
Strengthens retirement benefits for all workers.
Meets current contractual obligations to workers.
Oregon is a union strong state; that means we have each other’s back. Whether it’s a boycott, strike or another action, management needs to see that an injury to one is an injury to all. Until Kroger makes it right, we’re taking our business elsewhere. We urge you to do the same.
I have lived nextdoor to an Albertsons since 2021, and I am not impressed with the store at all. Since I've lived next door I have seen rotting pumpkins out front the store, bags of apples that were rotten, organic tomatoes growing fuzzy mold, tomatoes in the long containers rotten, bought 8 ears of corn and 4 had parts of a worm type bug 2 had the whole worm inside the husks, spoiled half and half, a lot of expired frozen foods, picking apples a couple of weeks ago and stuck my finger into the rotting side of a apple when I picked one up a few days ago I bought 2 packages of lunch meat chicken and turkey both…