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The contract at hand involved an increasde inpreventative health-care programs and a wage as well as a decrease in pension King Soopers spokeswoman Dianew Mulligan said. However, workers had protestex the pensionbenefit cuts, with the United Food and Commercialo Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some could lose $100,000p over the life of the and said the wage increases werenot “We are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargaininbg table if the corporation is willinb to meet us halfway,” King Soopers workerf Julie Gonzalez said in a news release put out by the “All we’re asking for is a fair deal.
And we really hope they don’t lock us out for askin g for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizesz our contribution tocompany profits.” About 17,00o0 union workers from the area’se three largest grocery chains Albertsons, King Soopers and — have been in negotiations with the grocersd since April 9 on new five-yeaf contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extendc their contract untilJune 26, which Albertsons and King Sooperxs employees currently are working without contracts.
The rejection of the latesg King Soopers contract proposal came quicklhy after voting began Workers inColorado Springs, Longmont and Boulder are voting today, whilre Pueblo workers are scheduled to cast ballots King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said that the rejectio n of the deal will not have any tangible effect on store King Soopers workers have not cast ballotz to strike. “We’re disappointee in the vote, but we look forward to gettintg backto negotiations,” Mulliganm said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-baserd
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