135 in the News
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Data from the Atlanta Federal Reserve shows wages are not frozen like during the Great Recession In the early days of the pandemic, grocery worker Roger McCullough was taken…
September 6, 2020
Voice of San Diego
In San Diego, frontline workers are continuing to show up for our communities every single day despite the very real dangers they still face…
August 20, 2020
CNN
Our country is hurting. People are losing their jobs, parents are struggling to keep a roof over their kids’ heads and Americans are getting sick and dying in record numbers…
August 6, 2020
NBC 7 San Diego
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the public has been asked to make changes in the way we go about our daily lives. Count wearing masks as…
July 18, 2020
Times of San Diego
Patty Figueroa of Chula Vista is a bakery clerk at Albertsons. Megan Gill of Carlsbad is a cheese specialist in a Ralphs service deli…
July 9, 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 135 is a huge part of the San Diego community. We represent over 12,000 members at…
May 22, 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune
I have been working in the grocery business for over 24 years. I am a proud, active union member with United Food and Commercial Worker…
May 22, 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune
I did not go to med school, but I might be more valuable than the guy that did. The doc spent eight years in college. I spent eight hours studying…
May 22, 2020
Supermarket News
Call to extend hourly bonus pay comes as retailers enhance support The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union said today th…
May 20, 2020
KUSI News
SANTEE (KUSI) – For the second time in a week, the appearance of a man wearing a face covering bearing a design associated with racist hate groups at a Santee grocery store drew outrage today…
May 8, 2020
NBC 7 San Diego
At a Vons store in Normal Heights, one employee is known for her positivity and kindness, especially in these tough times of the coronavirus pandemic…
May 6, 2020
Times of San Diego
Social media users and local officials expressed outrage this weekend after photos emerged Saturday of a male shopper at the Santee Vons wearing a makeshift Ku Klux Klan hood…
May 3, 2020
San Diego Reader
Tara has come out for a smoke. It’s nine at night. Break time. Her store, Vons, is about to close. She lights up, sitting in her car. All you can see is the red glow of her cigarette when she takes a tug…
April 22, 2020
NBC 7 San Diego
In an effort to protect their workers and reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, some regional and national grocery store chains have closed down stores and turned to curbside pickup and delivery to feed their customers…
April 22, 2020
ABC 10 News San Diego
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Thursday California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order meant to provide relief for essential food industry workers…
April 16, 2020
NBC 7 San Diego
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer thanked grocery store workers Tuesday for their work on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus, and asked San Diegans to continue practicing social distancing at stores…
March 31, 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Workers staffing ‘essential’ roles plan walkouts this week, demanding better treatment during pandemic Grocery and delivery workers are holding strikes and walkouts this week as concerns over…
March 30, 2020
Times of San Diego
The advertised start for Saturday’s free food distribution at SDCCU Stadium was 9 a.m. But the demand was so great that hundreds of cars arriving after that time were turned away…
March 28, 2020
Times of San Diego
An Escondido Albertsons worker tested positive for COVID-19 this week, the grocery chain said Saturday, and the local grocery union president said about a dozen union members have contracted the virus throughout Southern California…
March 28, 2020
NBC 7 San Diego
Grocery chain stores and independent markets are increasing their sanitation and implementing social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic
March 19, 2020