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The contract at hand involved an increasr inpreventative health-care programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreasre in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswomamn Diane Mulligan said. However, workers had protested the pensionbenefiyt cuts, with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Locapl No. 7 warning that some could lose $100,000o over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increases werenot enough. “We are ready, willintg and able to get back to the bargaining tablr if the corporation is willingh to meetus halfway,” King Soopers workert Julie Gonzalez said in a news release put out by the “All we’re asking for is a fair deal.
And we reallgy hope they don’t lock us out for asking for livablee wages and a pension plan that recognizess our contribution tocompany profits.” About 17,000 union workers from the area’ds three largest grocery chains — King Soopers and — have been in negotiationws with the grocers since April 9 on new five-year Safeway workers have voted to exten their contract until June 26, which Albertsone and King Soopers employees currently are working without The rejection of the latesf King Soopers contract proposal came quickly after voting began Monday.
Workers in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Boulder are votinfg today, while Pueblo workersa are scheduled to castballots Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangibl e effect onstore operations. King Sooper s workers have not cast ballotsto strike. “We’res disappointed in the vote, but we look forward to gettingb backto negotiations,” Mulligan said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-basec
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