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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union | |
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Abbreviation | UFCW |
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Formation | June 1979 |
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Type | Trade union |
Headquarters | Washington, DC, US |
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Membership | 1,274,156[1] (2013) |
President | Marc Perrone[2] |
Secretary-Treasurer | Milton Jones |
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Website | www |
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers[1] in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care. UFCW is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the AFL–CIO; it disaffiliated from the AFL–CIO in 2005 but reaffiliated in 2013. UFCW is also affiliated to UNI Global Union and the IUF.