Who We Are
UFCW 540 members work in front of customers and behind the scenes. Look for us stocking produce in a supermarket aisle, taking a child’s temperature in a hospital, slicing a cut of beef before it is delivered to a grocery store, or caring for your grandparents in a nursing home.
Working men and women across Texas are proud to call the UFCW 540 their local union. We are from all backgrounds and walks of life in big cities, small towns, and suburbs. We work in a wide range of industries, including health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and chemical trades, and retail food.
A Voice for Working People
Hard working men and women across Texas are seeing their way of life on the verge of collapse as health insurance costs skyrocket, pensions disappear, and real wages stagnate. The future of working families depends on a united voice that can stand up to powerful interests.
The working men and women of the UFCW are that voice. UFCW members work in a number of different industries in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada but are concentrated in retail food, health care, public service, meatpacking, poultry, and other food processing industries. And, across Texas, 540 members are fighting daily to keep raising the bar for working people’s wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Through UFCW negotiated contracts, more than 800,000 workers have fully paid health insurance and pension benefits. UFCW members, in the retail food industry, earn 31% more than their non-union counterparts. On top of this, they enjoy the security of a union contract and the strength of 1.2 million members behind them.
Your Neighborhood Union
UFCW International is North America’s Neighborhood Union – our members stand together to improve the lives and livelihoods of workers, families, and communities. And here in Texas, UFCW 540 members make the blue jeans your children wear to school, stock and scan the groceries you buy, or process the turkey you carve on Thanksgiving Day.
