Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Voting begins on King Soopers contract offer - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

inupujyfab1211.blogspot.com
Voting on the five-year offer by members of United Food and Commercial Workerzs Local 7 will continuethrough Wednesday. Union leaders are not makint a recommendation to theire members on thecontract offer, whichy the union complains would cut pensiobn benefits by an average of $100,00 0 -- a conclusion disputed by management. “It’sd a good contract in a normal economy. It’s a greatf contract in this King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said last She said roughly 65 percenft of workers would get raiseds underthe company’s King Soopers is a Colorado unit of Cincinnati-based KR). Colorado workers for two other grocerhchains — Pleasanton, Calif.
-basedf (NYSE: SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately held) — continue to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperws workers rejectthe chain’s latest proposal, they will continuew working without a contrac t until an agreement is reached or a strike is Their contract expired May 9.

No comments:

Post a Comment