Union Files Charges Against Haggen, Albertsons and Vons
Source: KEYT
By Oscar Flores
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
In a statement released to the press Monday, the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 770 announced that it has filed charges against Haggen, Albertsons and Vons for illegally laying off and reducing workers.
The UFCW Local 770 also says that the three grocers failed to fully inform workers about job protections, and failed to adhere to legally binding protections negotiated by their union.
“We will not stand idly by as management tries to pull the wool over their employees’ eyes,” said Rick Icaza, president of UFCW Local 770. “These companies have misled and mistreated their employees either through gross self-interest or gross incompetence, either of which is unacceptable. Real people are suffering loss of wages, health care, seniority, and outright loss of their jobs. We will do everything in our power to hold management accountable and return our members to their jobs with full benefits intact.”
"The charges, detailed in official complaints called grievances, cite Haggen, Albertsons, and Vons illegitimate dismissal of senior workers, disabled workers, and prior plans to close a large number of stores shortly after Haggen’s acquisition of nearly 150 Albertson’s locations," says the statement.
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the elderly and disabled are not relevant any more. 
