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Grocery Ratifiation Vote News
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, Wheat Ridge, CO
February 8, 2010
Pueblo Safeway and King Soopers
Latest to Ratify Tentative Agreement
Vote in Pueblo Strongly Endorses New Deal
Metro Denver, Colorado Springs Safeway, Soopers, Statewide
Albertsons Already Ratified
(UFCW-Local 7, Wheat Ridge, CO. Feb 8, 2010)—Pueblo grocery workers are the latest to ratify a new tentative agreement with the food store chains.
Safeway and King Soopers workers voted “strongly” in favor of the agreement Monday.
Metro Denver King Soopers and Safeway employees “overwhelmingly” approved the deal last week. So did Colorado Springs and Fountain Mesa Safeway employees
All Albertsons stores statewide also ratified the new agreement.
Workers’ bargaining committees and Local 7 officers endorsed the agreement after the chains agreed to add a union plan to hold down the rapidly rising costs of retiree health insurance premiums, which could have jumped as michj as 21 percent this year. The retiree health care plan is in addition to the corporations’ “Last, Best, and Final Offer,” which includes a ratification bonus, higher wages, better health insurance with an emphasis on preventative care, and a plan that stabilizes a pension plan that covers all grocery workers.
Voting in outlying areas continues through the end of next week.
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I wanted you to know that the executive board you elected was sworn in and had its first meeting. Every one of the members are workers in the grocery stores, the processing plants, or the military barbers we represent. That means that Local 7 is YOUR union...run by workers for workers.
Kim Cordova, President, UFCW Local 7
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