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 [...]
By Lauren Rosenblatt Source: The Seattle Times The push to unionize Amazon has come to Seattle — but it won’t play out in the same way as other union drives. Instead of warehouse workers, it’s focused on those Amazon employees serving lunches and stocking grocery shelves. Instead of an organizing [...]
By Josh Eidelson and Bloomberg Source: Fortune Workers at a Starbucks Corp. store in Seattle will hold a unionization vote, giving the labor group that recently won landmark New York elections a chance to expand its new foothold to the coffee giant’s hometown. Employees will be mailed ballots Feb. 25, [...]
By: Elle Thomas Source: KIRO-7 Teamsters Local 117 warehouse workers at Fred Meyer voted unanimously Saturday to authorize a strike. A contract between Fred Meyer and the union expires Sunday. They have not agreed on a new one. This could mean possible supply chain issues and food distribution disruptions at [...]
Two Northwest grocery industry trade groups are suing Seattle over the city’s new law mandating $4-an-hour pay raises for grocery stores. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges the city’s law interferes with the collective-bargaining process between grocery stores and unions and also “picks winners and [...]