Meet the Slate
A United Leadership Team
Faye, Sean, and Maria have worked side by side for more than a decade, helping build UFCW 3000 into a stronger, more militant, and more effective union. Together, they have led strikes, won contracts, grown organizing, and strengthened worker power across the region.
They are running as a united team to keep building a union that is democratic, transparent, and unafraid to fight—so every member has the power to win better wages, better healthcare, and a better future.
Faye Guenther
FOR PRESIDENT
Faye Guenther has been organizing workers across the Pacific Northwest since 1999, starting with United Food and Commercial Workers and helping lead a one-day strike at Providence early in her career. She grew up in rural Oregon, and has worked as a firefighter, farm worker, and a non-union grocery worker, which shaped her belief that real change comes from workers standing together.
Faye helped lead the field organizing during the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, and she’s spent decades building worker power, from shop-floor fights to major statewide campaigns. She played a key role in bringing together workers from eastern and western Washington into one united union, now UFCW 3000, bridging rural and urban communities.
In recent years, Faye has helped win hazard pay for frontline grocery workers, defended workplace safety standards, and led the fight to stop the Kroger-Albertsons merger to protect jobs, wages, and competition.
Faye is also a national leader on retirement security and workforce development. She has helped save and strengthen our union’s pension fund. She is also the founder of WeTrain Washington, expanding pathways to good union jobs. She is focused on ensuring every worker can retire with dignity and build a better future.
She believes strong unions are built through organizing, a willingness to take bold action, and taking on corporate billionaires. Faye is running to keep building a labor movement that fights for dignity, respect, and real economic justice for all workers.
Sean Embly
FOR SECRETARY TREASURER
Sean Embly is a lifelong Washingtonian and Tacoma resident who grew up in a union family, his dad a union carpenter, his mom a union flight attendant. He got his start as a warehouse worker at the Safeway Distribution Center in Auburn, where he joined United Food and Commercial Workers Local 81 and became a shop steward and bargaining team member.
As a steward, Sean helped lead the fight to win First Day Sick Leave in Washington.
Since joining union staff in 2015, Sean has been part of organizing, bargaining, and political fights across the region, working with grocery, retail, laundry, and healthcare workers. He’s taken on leadership roles across the union, helping lead major contract fights, including multiple grocery campaigns and strikes, and has been part of organizing victories across industries. He’s also served as a trustee for union pension and healthcare plans, fighting to protect retirement security and expand access to affordable healthcare.
He believes strong unions are built through organizing, transparency, and a building member leadership one workplace at a time..
Maria Milliron
FOR RECORDER
Maria Milliron is a first-generation Filipino immigrant, a mother of two, and a proud United Food and Commercial Workers Local 3000 member of more than a decade, running for reelection as Recorder.
Maria started at the union as an office assistant and worked her way up through multiple roles, now serving as Chief Operations Officer and Special Assistant to the President. Along the way, she helped build the union’s membership systems and led major efforts like the first large-scale COVID vaccination clinics for grocery workers in Washington.
She has been a key leader behind the scenes in organizing and contract fights, helping plan strikes, mobilize members, and turn strategy into action during high-stakes campaigns.
Maria believes strong unions are built through accountability, hard work, and putting members first. She is committed to continuing to build a union that delivers real results for working families