For generations our members at Carhartt have proudly made clothes for hard working people across America.

UFCW Local 227 represents over a thousand highly skilled workers in Kentucky at Carhartt sewing plants, a cutting plant and Carhartt’s only distribution center in the world. Our union workers in Kentucky are the backbone behind a brand that has come to symbolize hard work. Their hard work, their wages and benefits are backed by a union contract.

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UFCW 227 has a proud history of negotiating strong contracts for hard-working people at companies like Carhartt and other major brands that include wage increases, comprehensive and affordable health care and retirement benefits, paid time off and workplace safety.