By Kareem Gouda Source: Country105.com Over 3,000 Sobeys employees across 40 Lower Mainland Safeway stores have voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike if bargaining talks break down in the weeks ahead. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518, which covers Sobeys’ employees from Whistler to Hope, says members voted 98 [...]
Source: Phoenix 12 News Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99 voted to ratify a 30-month contract on August 31 -- giving them the largest wage increase for long-term, full-time employees in more than three decades. The agreement includes a $6,000 wage increase for long-term, full-time [...]
By Da Lin Source: CBS News It's no secret some San Francisco businesses have been hit hard by rampant theft and shoplifting. One grocery chain has installed gates inside some of their high-theft San Francisco stores where customers have to scan their receipts to exit. Safeway shopper Peter Thurston noticed [...]
By Jonathan Edwards Source: The Washington Post Donald Surrett Jr. could have run away Sunday when a man armed with an AR-style rifle started shooting inside the Bend, Ore., grocery store where Surrett worked. He could have hidden. Instead, the 66-year-old Safeway employee tried to disarm the shooter. Surrett “may [...]
Source: UFCW Local 3000 After months of preparation and workers taking action, marathon bargaining sessions led to a tentative agreement with Albertsons/Safeway, at 3 AM on April 14. This followed four long days of negotiations last week. Our Team will return to the bargaining table with Kroger on Tuesday, April [...]
Source: Chris D Winnipeg News Safeway workers in Manitoba have voted in favour of accepting a new five-year collective agreement from their employer. The new deal increases wages and funding for the members’ benefits plan, as well as addresses cashier concerns over scheduling and allows cashiers to refuse a customer’s [...]
Source: CBC News Unionized workers of two grocery store chains with locations in five Manitoba cities have voted 98 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. Over the weekend, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 members who work for Safeway and FreshCo gave their union the strike mandate [...]
By Angela Case Source: NBC News 9 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 reached a tentative agreement Thursday with Safeway and Albertsons stores in Colorado and Rock Springs, Wyoming. The union represents more than 5,400 Safeway workers. A Safeway spokesperson said the agreement covers 51 stores. "We appreciate the [...]
By Colin Staub Source: Northwest Labor Press On the heels of a contract settlement at Fred Meyer and QFC, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555 is heading back to the bargaining table with Albertsons and Safeway. The union has been in contract negotiations with Albertsons and Safeway management [...]
By R. Hans Miller Source: Columbia Basin Herald Safeway announced on Jan. 6 it is accepting online Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in addition to several other measures meant to fight food insecurity under its newly-dubbed Nourish Everyone Campaign. “Food insecurity is a problem this nation can and should solve. [...]