Posted on 09/16/2011 8:39:18 PM PDT by matt04
Charging that management is “stonewalling,” union grocery workers in Southern California have issued a 72-hour notice cancelling their contract extension, paving the way for a strike.
Eight months of negotiations between seven United Food and Commercial Workers locals representing 62,000 workers and management of supermarket chains owned by Kroger, Safeway and Supervalu have been hampered by disagreements over health care contributions. The union has charged that management’s proposal would “bankrupt health plans and eliminate entirely health care access” for employees.
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“We returned to the bargaining table ready to compromise and make a deal that keeps our employers profitable but protects the jobs of our members,” the leaders of the seven locals said in a press release. “Instead, we got more of the same stonewalling from management. They are unwilling to compromise and are more concerned about hoarding their billions in profits than reaching a fair deal for their employees. We don’t want to strike, but if they won’t negotiate, we have no choice.”
An overwhelming majority of UFCW members, working without a contract since March, voted last month to authorize a strike. Some supermarkets have been accepting applications for fill-in workers in the event of a strike.
(Excerpt) Read more at progressivegrocer.com ...
UFCW is somehow affiliated with the teamsters you can tell the difference easily between the two in a picket line.
They also went out on strike years ago when I was just out of high school. I had a friend who was recently hire by the store who was out picketing. I talked to him before I went into the store. When I left to go into the store he was going to go in the store with me to buy some lunch. I had to tell him how a strike worked. He asked some others with to male sure.
Any and all union workers who strike should be fired.
LOL. . Ya gotta be kiddin me, right!?
I found this on the UFCW website earlier this year. I can’t explain Kohl’s as they are not owned by A&P as far as I can tell.:
“If you live in Hawaii, Florida, Fairbanks, AK, Prince Edward Island, or virtually any point in between, it is likely that you will buy food in a retail food store where we work.
Altogether we are more than 1 million working men and women throughout North America. We work for the largest companies in the industry and for many smaller independent companies in cities and towns both large and small.
We work in the familiar occupations of stocker, checker, cashier, meat cutter and produce clerk. We also work behind the scenes on computer systems that adjust product prices and inventory management processes.
Key Employers*
A&P
* Food Basics
* Super Fresh
* Kohl’s
* Waldbaum’s
Ahold USA
* Brunos
* Shop & Stop
* Tops
* Giant Food of Landover (Washington/Baltimore area)
Albertson’s
* Acme
* Jewel
* Lucky
George Weston Ltd
* Loblaw
* Real Canadian Superstore
* Zehrs Markets
Kroger
* King Soopers
* Fred Meyer
* Ralphs
* Smiths
* QFC
* Fry’s
Safeway
* Vons
* Dominick’s
* Carrs
* Canada Safeway
Other
* Meijer
* Pathmark
* Shaw’s
* Schnucks
* Stater Brothers Markets
*This list is just a sample of the supermarkets where UFCW members work.”
Is Smart N’ Final a union chain?
If the Teamsters were involved it could have been the Union truck drivers picketing in solidarity whit their fellow “brothers and sisters.”
And I thought yunz was exclusive to SW Pennsylvania. Your granny didn’t move from Pittsburgh to Southern Illinois by any chance, did she?
Point of order:
Everything you buy which says “Made in China”, is union-made.
Everything.
Communist China, is the single largest, most powerful union in the history of Earth.
America first.
idiots..
Staters Brothers Markets just loves this. Ralphs is threatening to close it’s So Cal stores.
My medical insurance premium consumes a little more than 33% of my private pension.
Yep. I just find (and I am sure other do as well) that these union people are saying that if their health insurance costs go up $50 a month they will have to live on the street - stretching the bonds of truth.
They just piss me off, I am sick to death of unions.
Ralph’s plans to close their stores if the strike takes place. They don’t want customer contact with pickets.
The term was common in the whole area. My cousin in Mo. will sometimes..not often..say yunz.
I may have to go on a project to determine what the common denominator is.
Your post made me very nostalgic. :)
Any state that willingly surrenders their critical food distribution system to unions, as California has, deserves everything they get.
Just got back from Ralph’s in Ventura, CA. I told the kind 60 year old male checker, “Going on strike would be a very bad decision in this economy.” He looked at me with fear. It’s sad how Union bosses scare the “salt of the earth” folks who work at grocery stores.
Ralph’s already announced they’re closing their stores if the workers go out on strike.
Guy on radio this afternoon described the situation like this.
The union workers went out on strike the last time for about four months. The union finally accepted much less than they wanted. They were never happy with the deal.
Now they’re set to do it all again. And in this climate with 12.1% unemployment in Southern California, they’re going to get zero sympathy from the public.
How many years will these strikers have to work to make up for their losses this time, if they even have jobs to come back to?
Unions, the management doesn’t have to give a damn, and they don’t.
12.1% in Southern California right now...
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