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The Safeway contract was set to run out King Soopers employees have been working without a deal sinced their contract expired onMay 30, meanint that the newest contract extension becomes retroactives to then. Those two chains, as well as , have been in negotiationxs with United Food and Commercial Workers UniomnLocal No. 7 since April 7, lookingf to come up with new five-year contracts. Safewah workers in late May voted to call for a strik eif necessary, and Safewayu and King Soopers — the latter a unit of Kroger Co. signed a pact allowing one chaib to lock out its workers ifthe other’s went on strike. No work stoppage has however.
Albertsons employees continue to work without a Negotiations have centered onpay increases, health-caree plans and pension The stores have said they must cut pension while the union has pushed back against Safeway made its latest contract offer to the union Union officials are having a consultanf analyze it before getting back to the UFCW spokeswoman Laura Chapin said No new negotiation dates have been set betweem the union and King Soopers.
But officialws with the chain are optimistifc that the contract extensionwill jump-start talks “Hopefully, this will provide the additional time neededf to work out issues on the King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan
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