From today’s ABC7 News- San Francisco:
UFCW Local 5 and UFCW Local 648 have reached a tentative agreement with Albertson’s Companies which owns Safeway, averting a planned strike that would have been the first regional labor stoppage against the company in nearly three decades, the union announced.
The deal follows five months of negotiations and growing strike momentum from the thousands of Safeway employees represented by the unions in the Bay Area.
The tentative agreement includes meaningful wage increases, improvements to retirement benefits, fairer scheduling, increased health care contributions, and stronger job protection language.
“This is a hard-earned and inspiring victory,” said UFCW Local 5 President John Frahm and UFCW Local 648 President Dan Larson in a joint statement. “Because our members stood together–strong and unshakable–they secured a contract that reflects their value and delivers real improvements for their families and futures.”
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