The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is
North America's largest
private sector union. The UFCW is made up of 1.4 million members. UFCW members are employed in many different industries, but concentrated in retail food,
meatpacking,
poultry, and other
food processing industries. While being focused in the previous industries, thousands of other UFCW members work in the
health care industry, for
insurance companies, in
department stores, and in the garment manufacturing,
distillery and
winery,
chemical, and
textile trades. Some of the more notable companies that employ UFCW workers are
Kroger,
Meijer,
Macy's, and
Bloomingdale's.
UFCW has an ongoing campaign attempting to organize
Wal-Mart workers, but they have had no success so far.
UFCW is affiliated with the AFL-CIO
Most information gathered from http://www.ufcw.org