So. Calif. Grocery Workers Reject Contract Deal

alp227

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Sun Aug-21-11 02:34 PM
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So. Calif. Grocery Workers Reject Contract Deal

Source: Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of Southern California grocery workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket chains and authorize their union leaders to call a strike, a spokesman said early Sunday.

More than 90 percent of voters from the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, which has about 62,000 members, rejected the proposal from Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores.

The rejection automatically authorizes union officials to call a strike after 72 hours

Shimpock did not have precise numbers on how many voted, but said the turnout was "huge."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/21/business/AP-US-Supermarket-Labor.html

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Sherman A1

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Sun Aug-21-11 03:25 PM
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1. Thanks for Posting this one

It is important for all of us to keep up on these issues.

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Travis_0004

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Sun Aug-21-11 03:33 PM
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2. According to the article, the company wants to raise health insurance rates by 2.00

What else are they striking over. I can't imagine a strike over a 2.00 increase in health insurance cost.

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senseandsensibility

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Sun Aug-21-11 04:31 PM
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3. It says at the link that the union is concerned

about the longterm sustainability of the healthcare program.

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jdadd

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Sun Aug-21-11 05:10 PM
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4. This is a normal negotiating tactic....

The union needs a strike authorization, for leverage in negotiations....

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deacon

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Sun Aug-21-11 11:16 PM
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5. They keep raising their prices and flogging their employees. Scumbags. n/t

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