By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8-Golden State has ratified new labor agreements for grocery workers at Safeway, Vons, Save Mart, Lucky and Food Maxx supermarkets in Northern and Central California. UFCW 8GS said the three-year contracts with Albertsons Cos. (Safeway and Vons) and [...]
Source: UFCW Local 455 The union representing some 14,000 Houston-area Kroger workers ratified a contract after a two-years of negotiations that focused on wages and health care, spanning the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contract, which covers workers in 106 local stores and lasts through February 2024, will boost [...]
Source: UFCW Essential Workers Achieve Groundbreaking Contract Through Solidarity BLOOMINGTON, CALIF. (April 14, 2022) — Today, members of UFCW Local 1167 voted overwhelmingly to join their fellow union members across Southern California in ratifying a new three-year contract with Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions. Following the contract ratification, the seven UFCW local unions in Southern California released the following statement: “Today, tens [...]
By Emily Crowe Source: Progressive Grocer A new three-year contract with Stater Bros. Markets has been ratified by Southern California grocery workers. Members of six United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) unions voted to accept the deal, which will give workers higher wages, protected pension provisions and stronger healthcare benefits. Key [...]
By Stephen Singer Source: Hartford Courant Stop & Shop workers, battered by COVID-19 and eager to avoid a second strike in three years, have ratified a four-year contract that delivers a $15 minimum hourly wage a year before Connecticut’s higher wage takes effect and boosts pay significantly for workers who [...]
By Praveen Paramasivam Source: Reuters Workers at nearly 80 King Soopers, owned by Kroger Co., approved a new three-year contract, the Colorado-based chain said on Tuesday, ending a stalemate that had caused a 10-day strike at the start of the year. King Soopers will invest $170 million in wage increases [...]
Source: KFI AM 640 Unionized Rite Aid workers overwhelmingly ratified a new contract being billed as one of its best labor pacts in years, union officials announced today. Rite Aid workers ratified the deal Thursday night, joining their counterparts at CVS stores, who voted in support of their similar pact [...]
By Steve Moore Source: WTRF.com Around 1200 Kroger employees across 10 Upper Ohio Valley locations now have a new contract. Wendell Young, the President of UFCW Local 1776 tells 7NEWS that the contract was approved with 55% of the vote. The new contract covers a multitude of areas, but centers [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 770 called its new contract with The Kroger Co.’s Food 4 Less/Foods Co. supermarkets “the best deal ever won at Food 4 Less.” UFCW Local 770 said late Friday that a bargaining committee from UFCW unions [...]