Safeway Strike Averted After Tentative Agreement Reached
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…
Workers At Philadelphia Whole Foods Form First Union
From today’s CNN Business: Workers at a Pennsylvania Whole Foods store voted on Monday to unionize, forming the first union in the organic grocery chain owned by Amazon. A majority…
I Work at the FTC. I Know What Is Killing Local Groceries.
From today’s New York Times: Swaths of America have been hollowed out. Some people look at boarded-up shops in small towns and some urban centers and think: They just couldn’t…
F.T.C. Sues to Block Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Store Deal
From today’s New York Times: The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general on Monday sued to block Kroger, the supermarket giant, from completing its $24.6 billion acquisition of…