UFCW Local 1000 members live and work across Oklahoma and Texas, and this November, voters in both states will have the opportunity to elect experienced women legislators who have made working families central to their campaigns.

In Oklahoma, Cyndi Munson is running for governor after more than a decade in the state House, where she currently serves as House Democratic Leader. Munson has proposed raising Oklahoma’s minimum wage, expanding the state Earned Income Tax Credit and sales-tax relief for working families, and making child care more affordable for state employees. Her 2025 legislation included HB 2230 to raise the minimum wage to $16 an hour and HB 2229 to double Oklahoma’s refundable state EITC. In 2026, she continued pressing for a minimum wage of at least $15 an hour while opposing corporate practices such as surveillance-based pricing that can make different customers pay different prices for the same goods.

(⁠Oklahoma House of Representatives)

Across the Red River, Gina Hinojosa is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas. A five-term state representative, former Austin school board president and member of the Communications Workers of America, Hinojosa has built her campaign around strengthening public schools, expanding health-care access and confronting corporate power. She has defended prevailing-wage protections, joined workers on the picket line and filed legislation that would prohibit employers from imposing noncompete agreements on workers earning $15 an hour or less.

(⁠Gina Hinojosa for Texas Governor)

Munson and Hinojosa represent a new generation of leadership, but neither is new to governing. Both are relatively young women who have accumulated years of legislative experience while fighting for better wages, affordable health care, strong public schools and an economy that rewards work instead of concentrating power in corporate boardrooms.

For UFCW Local 1000 members, the stakes are practical: what appears in a paycheck, whether families can afford groceries and child care, whether workers have a voice on the job, and whether elected leaders respect the dignity of labor. In Oklahoma and Texas, Cyndi Munson and Gina Hinojosa are running campaigns that put those concerns where they belong—at the center of state government.



In solidarity,

Ricky Burris

UFCW Local 1000 President