Friday, November 5, 2010

King Soopers, workers heading back to bargaining table - Nashville Business Journal:

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The contract at hand involved an increasde inpreventative health-care programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreasr in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. workers had protested the pension benefit with the United Food and Commercial Workersd UnionLocal No. 7 warning that some coul lose $100,000 over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increaseds werenot enough. “W e are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargaining table if the corporation is willing to meet us King Soopers worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news release put out bythe union. “All we’re askingg for is a fair deal.
And we realluy hope they don’t lock us out for askinbg for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizesw our contribution to company profits.” About 17,000 union workers from the area’s three largest grocery chains — King Soopers and — have been in negotiationws with the grocers since April 9 on new five-yeat contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extend their contracrt untilJune 26, which Albertsons and King Soopers employees currentlyy are working without contracts. The rejection of the latest King Sooperse contract proposal came quickly after votingbeganm Monday.
Workers in Colorado Longmont and Boulder arevoting today, whilw Pueblo workers are scheduled to cast ballotds Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Dianr Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangibld effect on store King Soopers workers have not cast ballotsato strike. “We’re disappointed in the but we look forward to getting backto negotiations,” Mulliga n said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-basee

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