Transfer from store to store

Date: Jul 10, 2018

Transfer from store to store

5star · Veteran Member

If it's within the same union agreement then yes your pay and full time should stay the same. If you switch divisions or local union then it will change based on their contract.

Date: Jul 10, 2018

If it's within the same union you'll be fine. Just request to be transferred to the desire location/store. QFC gets a lot of Safeway employees and I've seen a lot of Ralph's employees from back east transfer to QFC and vise versa. Your pay should logically be the same if it's the same union. Seniority will remain as you're still within the company.

Date: Jul 22, 2018

If you transfer from a different division BEWARE!! You get to keep your original hire date, but you won't be grandfathered into the current contract! All of your pay will be back to the new hire pay! It took me 9 months to finally get someone in Fry's corporate to put it in writing in an email! 20 years of service reduced to a new hire!! Wish they would of told me that before I made the decision to transfer!!

EUID_Unknown · Guru

I never really understood why there something added to contact that allow different Union reciprocity. You would think all the UFCW's would want to bridge the gap and build "One Voice" to assist with receiving better union contacts and retain membership. In reality it seem like local UFCW's are just wanting to keep their structure to keep their Pres/Vp's salaries. Has anyone ever wondered where the weekly union fees go? How large is the strike fund? Do some basic math about how much you pay weekly to the Union and how many Union employees are in your Div., its insane the amount the Union collects and where does it all go?

walkyle · Newbie

Nothing changes more if you are at chain stores such as Albertsons, Shaws, Safeway, or Vons if you are hired. All are handled by a companion company Albertsons and they use the same portal direct2hr where you can get in touch with other employees and benefit.

Date: Dec 11, 2023

I live in Utah working for Smith's. But I'm moving to Indiana.Can I transfer from Smith's in Utah to Ralph's in Indiana??

Star84041 · Newbie

I'm moving from utah to Indiana Can I transfer from Smith's to Ralphs?

Date: Dec 11, 2023

Depends on your store.

If they want to be rid of you, you can step on a plane this afternoon and it will be done before you get there.

If they don't, two weeks, a month or two, whatever.

If you are borderline competent, sorry, but here's a writeup. Sorry, so sorry. Sorry, but you are now in sorry standing with this sorry company. Sorry. Ineligible for transfer. We're so sorry. But not as sorry as you for putting up with it.

If the store manager hates you, it's not going to happen until he gets transferred out.

Not like McDonald's or Walmart pays any worse.

Date: Dec 16, 2023

Call or go to the location you desire to transfer to.

Talk to manager or hr person. Ask about any openings. Ask if you can do a role change or transfer into one of the openings. (Make sure the department has hrs.)

Ask your current store to sign a transfer paper for you. Bring it to the new store and hand it to the manager. Just a note schedule is 2 weeks out. So you should time it so you can actively be working. If you're moving you can give your self some time to complete the move.

I transfer stores about every 8-10 yrs. It's easy. If your manger is being a dick abt the transfer due to lack of staff or being an aff hole to you this is what you do:

Go to the union file a grievance. (You're not a slave you can quit any time.)

Go to the store you want to transfer to and make the manager on duty sign a transfer paper there and then. Thus forcing the manager at your old location to let it go through or else. I had this happen at my first location. I transferred out after the 90 probationary because I got tired of being treated poorly and like sh--it from a few of the cashiers. Kept denying me a transfer and this is what I had to do.

Date: Dec 16, 2023

Depends on your store.

If they want to be rid of you, you can step on a plane this afternoon and it will be done before you get there.

If they don't, two weeks, a month or two, whatever.

If you are borderline competent, sorry, but here's a writeup. Sorry, so sorry. Sorry, but you are now in sorry standing with this sorry company. Sorry. Ineligible for transfer. We're so sorry. But not as sorry as you for putting up with it.

If the store manager hates you, it's not going to happen until he gets transferred out.

Not like McDonald's or Walmart pays any worse.

This is horrible advice. Do not quit. You do not have to you can internally transfer. You can jump from one store affiliated with ufcw and that requires a quit but all your union seniority should transfer over. If in the same district/county contract should be the same. If you move out of that district it will change a little to better suite that area. I'm lucky when I did a big move my pay went up not down. This is the only scenario in which you pay can go down.

i386 · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
I live in Utah working for Smith's. But I'm moving to Indiana.Can I transfer from Smith's in Utah to Ralph's in Indiana??

There are not any Ralph's in Indiana. It is all Kroger stores.

Date: Dec 22, 2023

i386 wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I live in Utah working for Smith's. But I'm moving to Indiana.Can I transfer from Smith's in Utah to Ralph's in Indiana??

There are not any Ralph's in Indiana. It is all Kroger stores.

PayLess isnt a Kroger store nor is Ruler