Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Safeway, King Soopers contracts extended - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The Safeway contract was set to run out King Soopers employees have been working without a deal sincse their contract expired onMay 30, meaning that the newesr contract extension becomes retroactive to then. Those two as well as , have been in negotiationsd with United Food and Commercial Workerse UnionLocal No. 7 since April 7, looking to come up with new five-yead contracts. Safeway workers in late May voted to call for a strikewif necessary, and Safeway and King Soopers — the latterf a unit of Kroger Co. signed a pact allowing one chain to lock out its worker s ifthe other’s went on strike. No work stoppagde has occurred, however.
Albertsons employeew continue to work withouta contract. Negotiationsz have centered onpay increases, health-carwe plans and pension benefits. The stores have said they must cutpension contributions, while the union has pushed back against that. Safeway made its latestf contract offer to theunion Tuesday. Union officials are having a consultanf analyze it before getting back to the UFCW spokeswoman Laura Chapinsaid Wednesday. No new negotiation dated have been set between the union andKing Soopers. But officials with the chain are optimisticf that the contract extensionwill jump-start talks again.
“Hopefully, this will provide the additional time needexd to work out issues onthe pension,” King Sooperzs spokeswoman Diane Mulligan

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