UFCW 8 Launches Campaign Against Non-Union Foods Co Store

A campaign launched by UFCW 8-Golden State is asking shoppers in South Sacramento not to shop at a new, non-union Foods Co supermarket in the area.

The campaign, which includes direct mailings, handbills and on-site informational picketing, points out that employees at the store are getting lower wages and poorer benefits than workers at unionized Foods Co stores in other parts of Sacramento.

“Union supermarkets are an important source of decent jobs in South Sacramento,” said Jacques Loveall, president of UFCW 8-Golden State. “Foods Co's heartless and greedy policy will mean lower wages and more suffering in the community.”

Union members and their supporters began walking an informational picket line outside the store at 7421 W. Stockton Blvd. on July 25. Participants are handing out leaflets that ask customers not to shop at the store. Shoppers are being directed to nearby union stores operated by Bel Air, Food Maxx, Food Source, Raley's, Safeway and Save Mart.

“At union stores, employees earn good wages with health care and retirement benefits,” Loveall said. “It's shameful that Foods Co wants to deny these things to the people of South Sacramento.”