Wendell W. Young IV

Wendell W. Young, IV, is President of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 and a Vice President of the UFCW International Union.  He is a graduate of Saint Joseph's University's Comey Institute of Industrial Relations, where he has served as an Advisory Board member and taught labor economics and collective bargaining.  He has been President of the 24,000-member UFCW Local 1776 since January 2005.

Mr. Young worked at Penn Fruit and Acme Markets before beginning his career as a union representative in 1983.  He worked as a field representative, organizer and negotiator, assuming responsibility for major food industry labor contracts with Acme, Shop Rite and Super Fresh, among others.  He has spearheaded a number of initiatives as a union negotiator to establish affordable child care and education benefits for working families in the changing economy.  As a trustee overseeing health and pension benefit trust funds, he is responsible for the investment and management of approximately one half billion dollars in assets and benefits.

UFCW Local 1776 members work in southeast, northeast and central Pennsylvania, northeast Maryland and southern New York in supermarkets, drug stores, food processing plants, government services, manufacturing facilities, nursing homes, professional offices and Pennsylvania’s Wine and Spirits Shops.