About Us

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500's Building Blocks Project promotes and establishes policies that support the preservation of existing supermarkets, the development of new supermarkets and ensures workers rights to form a union without fear.

These policies form the foundation of the Building Blocks Project: Good Food, Good Jobs and Good Health.  When a community is built upon this foundation, it produces positive results for all residents of New York State.

The shortage of traditional supermarkets has led to a crisis in which New Yorkers lack access to good food, good jobs and good health.  Without access to healthy, affordable food, communities suffer from diet-related epidemics such as obesity, diabetes and heart-related illnesses. Without grocery stores that provide living wages and health care (good jobs), community members are forced to rely on publicly funded health insurance and assitance. 

The preservation, development and organization of unionized supermarkets safeguards top level wages and first-rate health care, the building blocks of a healthy community and economy.