Local 400 Member Inducted Into Maryland Food Industry Hall of Fame

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)UFCW Local 400 member Sally Dickerson was recently inducted into the Maryland Food Industry Hall of Fame in honor of her 55 years of service as a Safeway cashier. When she retired in September 2010 at the age of 87, she was the most senior associate among all of Safeway’s 180,000 employees. Dickerson is as proud of her Local 400 membership as she is of her unparalleled record as a Safeway employee. “I’ve been a member for all these years,” she said, “and our union has been very good to me.” In its induction, the Maryland Food Industry Hall of Fame said that Dickerson’s “remarkable career at Safeway was punctuated by awards and recognition by company management. She was an inspiration to colleagues with her punctuality, dependability and work ethic. But, most importantly, she was loved and appreciated by her legion of loyal customers who frequently waited in longer lines at her checkstand just to see her. Through her very last day at work, she had an incredible energy level and could out-work people half her age.” Dickerson joined Safeway in 1955, working first at stores in Wheaton and Rockville before settling in as a mainstay at the Kensington store from the day it opened in 1964 until it closed in 2006 to make room for a new store. From 2006 until 2010, she worked at the Hillandale store, where she worked full-time, eight hours a day, until her final shift. - photo courtesy UFCW 400