Thursday, August 30, 2012

Voting begins on King Soopers contract offer - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Voting on the five-year offer by memberas of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continuethrough Wednesday. Unioj leaders are not making a recommendatiojn to their members on thecontract offer, which the unio n complains would cut pension benefitas by an average of $100,00 -- a conclusion disputed by “It’s a good contract in a normalo economy. It’s a great contract in this King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said last She said roughly 65 percent of workers woulfd get raises underthe company’s King Soopers is a Colorado unit of Cincinnati-based KR). Colorado workers for two other grocerygchains — Pleasanton, Calif.
-based SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately — continue to negotiate separate dealds with their employers. If King Soopers workers rejectthe chain’s latesty proposal, they will continue working without a contractg until an agreement is reached or a strike is Their contract expired May 9.

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