By Betty Miller Source: The Desert Review Spreckels Sugar union workers forsook their plant jobs Thursday, March 9, to strike outside demanding respect from the company which they backed up with filings of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board. The 76-year-old sugar factory is set to begin [...]
Source: WBNS Ohio Thousands of Kroger union members have voted in favor of a new three-year contract, avoiding a potential strike. The Cincinnati-based company, Kroger, presented an updated contract last week to the UFCW Local 1059, the Columbus chapter of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union. Union negotiators tentatively [...]
By Sarah Donaldson Source: NBC 4 Ohio Kroger union members in central Ohio inched closer to establishing a picket line Friday after a majority rejected the grocery chain’s most recent contract offer and authorized a strike. Even though more than 80% of members in the Columbus division who voted were [...]
Source: UFCW Local 1167 Because of your hard work and dedication to standing together and making your voices heard, all UFCW SoCal Local unions have reached a tentative agreement on your contract after meeting with Representatives from Ralphs and Albertsons/Vons/Pavillions yesterday. Vote meeting information regarding locations, dates, and times will [...]
Source: KFI AM 640 More than 600 pharmacists and pharmacy workers at Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions stores in Southern California could be set to walk out following an "overwhelming" membership vote Friday to authorize union leadership to call for a strike. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), which represents [...]
By Brittany Costello Source: KOB.com From the moment the pandemic hit, grocery store workers have not only continued to feed America, but they've put themselves in harm’s way to do it. How are they repaid? Some employees say they haven't been. Now Smith's grocery store workers are threatening to strike. [...]
By Sam Tabachnik Source: The Denver Post Talk to the men and women who walked the King Soopers picket lines and you’d hear why they were out there, in the cold and freezing rain, striking for a better life. They started as high school kids looking for some extra cash [...]
By Ellie Sullum Source: 303 Magazine Today at 5 a.m., more than 8,000 King Soopers union workers went on strike across nearly 80 stores in the Denver Metro Area. The strike comes after months of unsuccessful negotiations between United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 and Kroger-owned King Soopers. [...]
By Michael Hiltzik Source: Los Angeles Times Cristina Lujan, 46, has worked on the line at the Jon Donaire Desserts plant in Santa Fe Springs for 19 years, nearly half her life, making and decorating cakes for food chains such as Ralphs, Walmart and Baskin-Robbins. Since Nov. 3, however, she [...]
Source: OPB.org A weeklong strike is underway affecting a number of Oregon grocery stores, barely a week before Christmas Day. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555, representing employees at Fred Meyer and QFC stores, confirmed early Friday morning that it is moving ahead with a walkout. The union [...]