What UFCW Local 7 does

UFCW Local 7 is a regional labor union local affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) international union federation, headquartered at 7760 West 38th Avenue, Suite 400 in Wheat Ridge (Denver metro), Colorado. It represents approximately 23,000 workers across Colorado and Wyoming in grocery stores, packing houses, food processing plants, barbers and cosmetologists, cannabis establishments, counselors, and healthcare facilities. Named employer counterparts include King Soopers, Safeway/Albertsons, City Market, JBS, Denver Processing, and Kaiser Permanente.

The union's core service offerings are union representation, contract negotiations, member advocacy, and worker organizing. Members receive collective bargaining representation covering wages, benefits, and working conditions; grievance procedures; workplace safety protections; and public-policy advocacy. The union conducts grassroots organizing campaigns and uses a dedicated website (ufcw7.org), press releases, member communications, and on-site union representatives — 100+ representatives are assigned to specific store locations and facilities per the Find Your Rep page — to recruit and serve members. It operates six physical offices across Colorado (Wheat Ridge/Denver, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Greeley, Pueblo) and Wyoming (Cheyenne).

UFCW Local 7 is a private membership organization funded through recurring membership dues paid by its 23,000 members; revenue is not publicly disclosed. The union is currently engaged in a 2025-2026 multi-employer bargaining cycle, with active 2026 negotiations at Denver Processing where workers voted 97% to authorize an unfair labor practice strike in April 2026. The union also issued 2026 political endorsements and announced a Grand Junction office relocation effective July 2026. The organization has no proprietary technology product and no disclosed AI capabilities; its value is delivered through collective action and representational infrastructure rather than software.

Name

UFCW Local 7

Legal name

UFCW Local 7

Website

https://ufcw7.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UFCW Local 7 is a labor union local representing 23,000 workers across Colorado and Wyoming in grocery, food processing, healthcare, cannabis, and personal services, delivering collective bargaining, contract negotiation, and worker advocacy funded by recurring membership dues.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Wheat Ridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Union Membership Dues: UFCW Local 7 operates as a labor union representing workers. The union generates revenue through membership dues paid by its 23,000 members to fund union operations, representation services, collective bargaining activities, and member advocacy.

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

UFCW Local 7 is a labor union representing approximately 23,000 workers across Colorado and Wyoming in grocery stores, packing houses, food processing plants, barbers and cosmetologists, cannabis, counselors, and healthcare facilities. The union negotiates collective bargaining agreements covering wages, benefits, and working conditions, represents members in workplace grievances, and advocates on public policy issues affecting workers. Services include contract negotiations, member advocacy, and organizing campaigns to recruit unorganized workers.

Product overview

UFCW Local 7 is a labor union providing a unified set of member services rather than a technology platform. The union offers union representation, contract negotiations, member advocacy, and worker organizing services to approximately 23,000 members across Colorado and Wyoming. These services support workers in grocery stores, packing houses, food processing plants, barbers and cosmetologists, cannabis, counselors, and healthcare facilities. The union also engages in public policy advocacy on behalf of its members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Union Representation Services

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Recent moves5 records

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Direct peers

• UFCW Local 770: A Southern California UFCW local representing grocery, retail, and food processing workers. Closely comparable in structure, business model (membership dues), customer verticals (grocery chains, food processing), and collective bargaining focus, though operating in a different region.
• UFCW Local 5: A Northern California UFCW local representing grocery, retail, and food processing workers. Directly comparable peer covering the same core industries (grocery chains, meat processing) under the same UFCW International structure.
• UFCW Local 880: An Ohio UFCW local covering grocery, retail, food processing, and healthcare workers. Directly comparable peer under the same UFCW umbrella with overlapping verticals (grocery, meat processing, healthcare).
• UFCW Local 400: A Mid-Atlantic UFCW local covering grocery, food processing, and retail workers. Same parent federation, same dues-based revenue model, same core employer types (grocery chains, meat plants), making it a structurally analogous peer local.
• UFCW Local 21: A Washington-state UFCW local representing grocery, retail, and healthcare workers. Directly comparable in mission, revenue model (dues), and covered verticals, particularly grocery and healthcare worker representation.

Others

• AFL-CIO: The national federation of labor unions in the United States. UFCW is itself an AFL-CIO affiliate, and the federation provides political advocacy, organizing infrastructure, and coordination among affiliated union locals like UFCW Local 7.

Broad incumbents

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters: A major labor union representing workers across supply chain, food processing, and warehouse/logistics. Comparable as a dues-funded union local structure and as a competing organizer in food processing and distribution, an adjacent vertical to UFCW Local 7's meatpacking members.
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU): A large labor union representing healthcare, property services, and public sector workers. Comparable in mission and dues-funded revenue model, and a competing organizer in the healthcare vertical where UFCW Local 7 also operates (e.g., Kaiser Permanente).
• UNITE HERE: A labor union representing workers in food service, hospitality, and related service industries. Comparable in representing service-sector workers under a dues-funded membership model and in competing for service-industry organizing opportunities adjacent to UFCW Local 7's base.
• UFCW International Union: The national parent federation of UFCW Local 7, organizing more than 1.2 million workers across grocery, meatpacking, retail, and healthcare. Directly comparable as the umbrella organization for all UFCW local chapters, providing collective bargaining infrastructure and political advocacy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/UFCW_7
• Facebookfacebook.com/UFCW7
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ufcw-local-7

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