[lbo-talk] Denver Grocery Workers approve contract opposed by local union supported by international

kevin lapalme laborcommons at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 7 12:12:40 PST 2005


King Soopers and City Market workers on Saturday accepted a contract served up by a federal mediator, bringing their contentious labor talks to a close and avoiding a strike.

Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., which owns both chains, had previously agreed to the four-year deal.

Negotiations for Safeway and Albertsons workers are ongoing, but the Kroger contract is expected to serve as a model for those negotiations.

Sixty percent of workers who mailed in their ballots approved the Kroger contract, which the union's bargaining committee urged workers to reject. About half of the 7,600 eligible voters turned in ballots.

"I think people were just tired of the whole thing already," said Linda Ariki, a checker at a King Soopers store in Wheat Ridge.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E33%257E2747473,00.html

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