Source: Street Insider Pension Trustees representing United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals 5, 8, 480 and 648 in Northern California and Hawaii demand Albertsons delay an anticipated $4 billion dividend to shareholders. The UFCW Trustees seek this delay until such time as all pension obligations are assessed and fulfilled. [...]
Source: UFCW Western States Council Today, the California Labor Federation, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Western States Council came together to applaud the California Legislature’s passage of AB 152/SB 136 to extend COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave to essential workers [...]
Source: UFCW Western States Council Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Western States Council applauded the California State Senate’s passage of AB 2188 (Quirk), which would prohibit employers from discriminating against employees who use cannabis off the job and away from the worksite by using out-dated urine testing [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News As the nation tries to emerge from the shadow of COVID-19, the virus remains a key concern for essential frontline workers in the food, grocery and other industries, a study by United Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW) and the University of Nebraska Medical [...]
Source: CBS News Pharmacists working at grocery stores all over Southern California have rejected the latest contract offer from employers and have authorized a strike if negotiations fail to meet their contract demands. The UFCW, which represents seven locals who make up largest union grocery contract in the country, said [...]
By Tommy Wood Source: Daily Camera Workers at the Trader Joe’s grocery store at 1906 28th St. are attempting to unionize after United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 filed a petition for a union election on their behalf Tuesday. That makes the Boulder store the third Trader Joe’s in [...]
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 Margot Roosevelt Source: Los Angeles Times Whipsawed by the pandemic, spurred by fury over wage stagnation and alarmed by inflation, Southern California’s unionized grocery workers gained their biggest pay raises in decades Thursday as they ratified a new contract with the region’s largest food chains. The three-year contract’s overwhelming [...]
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 [...]