UFCW Know Your Rights resources target Trader Joe’s workers organizing, filing charges

What this resource is and who it’s for: The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) maintains worker-facing “Know Your Rights” materials and active campaign pages aimed at grocery and retail employees, including those at Trader Joe’s. These resources summarize core protections for employees who en" is the verbatim opening the union uses to describe the materials aimed at Trader Joe’s crew and other grocery workers.

On the UFCW 3000 pages the union lays out a 10-point bill of rights that frames workplace demands as core protections. The items appear verbatim as Article 1 through Article 10: "RIGHT TO BETTER WAGES: We have a right to fair pay so we can afford food, clothing, a place to live, and the other necessities we need to live our lives and support our families. Better wages mean that current workers can be given the opportunity to move into higher paying jobs and have their time with the company recognized." "RIGHT TO LIFE OUTSIDE WORK: We have a right to a life outside of work including two dependable days a week for ourselves, our families, our places of worship, and our communities." "RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE: We have a right to an affordable health care plan that helps us stay well and takes care of us when we are ill." "RIGHT TO RETIREMENT: We have a right to a dependable pension so we can retire with dignity." "RIGHT TO PAID SICK DAYS: We have a right to paid sick days when we are sick so we can stay at home, get well and contribute to a healthy food supply. Nobody should have to choose between staying home and caring for themselves or a sick family member and paying the rent." "RIGHT TO JOB SECURITY: We have a right to protection against unjust firing or demotion, and unfair discipline." "RIGHT TO SAFE WORKPLACES: We have a right to decent and safe working conditions. This includes basic humane treatment including rest breaks and worker safety protections." "RIGHT TO A VOICE ON THE JOB: We have a right to a voice in the workplace when we choose to have a union, without any interference by our employers." (Article 8 appears twice in the supplied material, with a formatting credit to Gaelan Kelly adjacent to a social image.) "RIGHT TO HEALTHY FOOD: Grocery workers and our customers have a right to safe and healthy food in the stores where we work and shop." "RIGHT TO MORE HOURS: We have a right to a dependable number of hours of work each week so that we can predict our paycheck, manage our household budgets, and be able to pay our bills."

The site pairs that bill of rights with a straight explanation of the NLRB role: "In short: The NLRB is a government agency that does all of the following: • Sets up and processes union elections • Investigates and remedies when employers violate workers’ rights to organize • Makes sure both unions and companies bargain in good faith." That description frames the pages as not only aspirational promises but a primer on the federal agency that handles union elections and remedies alleged employer violations.

The UFCW pages also carry a legal notice addressing court orders affecting campaign activity at a major retailer: "Legal notice: Courts have enjoined non-Associate UFCW agents from entering Walmart property, except to shop, in AR, CO, FL, OH, TX, and MD and from doing non-shopping activity inside CA stores. Read orders here." The materials include a social asset credited to Gaelan Kelly titled "450x900px Social media post-bill of rights.jpg" and the site footer displays "Copyright © 2026–Present The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). All rights reserved. [...] fbpx."

For Trader Joe’s crew members weighing organizing or filing charges, the UFCW pages recycle core headings used sitewide - "Know Your Rights", "Union 101", "Unionize Your Workplace", "Find your Local Union" - and the union’s direct call to action: "Are you and your coworkers ready to negotiate for bigger raises, stronger benefits, and better lives? If so, the steps to start a union with UFCW are simple." The Union 101 framing begins, verbatim, "Like the laws that guarantee our democratic right as citizens to vote, there are federal laws that exist to protect our ability to unionize and improve our workplaces too. Our right to share one voice, in both elections and in labor unions, gives us power as both citizens and workers. If you’ve never been a part of a labor union before, or if you’re starting a union at your workplace for the first time, you deserve to know your rights to organize and how to use them to your advantage as you start a union. [...] Legal notice: Courts have enjoined non-Associate UFCW agents from entering Walmart property, except to shop, in AR, CO, FL, OH, TX, and MD and from doing non-shopping activity inside CA stores. Read orders here."

Those texts together present an evergreen primer aimed at grocery and retail employees, explicitly including Trader Joe’s staff, that combines an outlined bill of rights, a federal agency explainer, and a specific legal notice about injunctions affecting campaign activity at Walmart locations. Copyright and asset credits on the pages are dated to "2026–Present.