Tentative Agreement Reached with Albertsons/Safeway, Negotiations Continue with Kroger to Ensure All Our Grocery Store Workers Get Treated Fairly

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 [...]

2022-04-15T16:12:13+00:00April 15th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Starbucks workers’ union drive, spreading across the U.S., has reached the company’s Seattle home

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, [...]

2022-02-23T23:58:28+00:00February 23rd, 2022|Tags: , , |

Grocery industry sues Seattle over new $4 hazard-pay law

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 [...]

2021-02-04T23:32:16+00:00February 4th, 2021|Tags: , , |
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