March 21, 2020 Dear Member:Ancillary Benefits Expanded and Open Enrollment Period To Begin for members in Part-Time positions As Chairman of the Board of Trustees for our MRMC Union Health & Welfare Plan, I am proud to announce that our Ancillary Benefits Package has...
Author: UFCW Local 663
March 20, 2020 Dear Member,This morning, Governor Walz called me on the phone to discuss his executive order to classify grocery store workers as Tier 2 critical first responders this week. I thanked him for his leadership, and for being the calming voice and...
March 19, 2020 This afternoon, the Star Tribune ran a story about many of our grocery store employers who gave an increase in pay to all union hourly employees by $2 an hour. This is a well-deserved pay premium for the hard work thousands...
Our members in grocery stores are at the front line of this pandemic. I want to take a moment to thank you for the important and critical work that you do. You are holding it down for yourselves, your families, and let’s face it,...
From President Utecht I have been working with Governor Walz’s office to have grocery store workers reclassified as Tier 1 “critical first responders.” Because Minnesota is under a peacetime emergency, this would make our members in retail grocery the same as hospital workers, police,...
I want to keep you updated on how your union is working on your behalf to advocate for you to stay safe at work. Rest assured, myself and Secretary-Treasurer Paul Crandall, and our entire staff of UFCW Local 663 are working all day to...
Monday, March 16, 2020From Matt Utecht, President, UFCW Local 663 I want to continue to give you updates as we work through these unprecedented times with the COVID-19 outbreak. Last Friday I sent an email out to our union membership and the message is...
Friday, March 13, 2020 Subject line: Message from President Utecht, UFCW Local 663 Dear Member, As the pandemic of COVID-19 brings different challenges each day, I want to keep you updated on how we are working together as a union to advocate for safe...
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