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Bright Red Nipples
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 Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: GG Safeway |
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| Bright Red Nipples wrote: | | [HALO]cpt._Keyes wrote: | | all those stores in Cal. that were on strike...are no longer on strike...wonder y....safeway shut them down...there fore firing every single person in Cal. who works for safeway... GOOD JOB!!!! |
Are you saying that Safeway is no longer in Calif?? They just closed all of their stores due to the strike?? |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: GG Safeway |
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| Bright Red Nipples wrote: | | Bright Red Nipples wrote: | | [HALO]cpt._Keyes wrote: | | all those stores in Cal. that were on strike...are no longer on strike...wonder y....safeway shut them down...there fore firing every single person in Cal. who works for safeway... GOOD JOB!!!! |
Are you saying that Safeway is no longer in Calif?? They just closed all of their stores due to the strike?? |
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ya they just shut them down taped up...locked...closed...no entry...no admitance
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I'm pretty sure it's a lockout, not a real closure.
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just live off the land like the amish 
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I am surprised this has not hit Oregon or Idaho (the home of Alberstons etc).
But I was amazed that the union contrats for stores in oregon pay more than CA. Like by like 3-4+ dollars per hour and our cost of living is less.
BTW Albertson butchers assistants in oregon make about 13 per hour.
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| Turbo! wrote: | | just live off the land like the amish |
well considering the density of people here...I think leg of neghbor would be high on the menu.
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| ROOFCUTTER wrote: | | Turbo! wrote: | | just live off the land like the amish |
well considering the density of people here...I think leg of neghbor would be high on the menu. |
mmmmmmm leg of neighbor.......*drools*
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Supermarkets, Grocery Clerks Reach Deal
Thu Feb 26, 8:46 PM ET
AP Wire Service
LOS ANGELES - Negotiators for grocery clerks and three supermarket chains reached a tentative contract agreement Thursday that could bring an end to the longest supermarket strike in U.S. history and send 70,000 cash-strapped employees back to work.
Greg Denier, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers union, declined to disclose details of the agreement.
The 4 1/2-month strike has inconvenienced millions of shoppers in Southern California and led to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for the three grocery chains, which had taken a stand against rising employee health costs.
Officials with the union must submit the proposed contract to members for approval. It was not immediately known when they might end pickets and return to work. Voting could begin as early as Friday.
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the deal...workers, you can go back to work....stores, you can sell grocerys to everyone again....buyers...I have to stop going out to eat???
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...interesting...i smell either more money...or im quiting...i need to get in shape for CG
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| [Focus]Lunt wrote: | And on another not.....Safeway in Canada has done the same thing for a long time now....they have tried to punt those they initially hired way back when at a decent wage to replace them with all part-time 6.00/hr (US funds roughly 4) no benefits, no bonuses etc......DO NOT SHOP THERE...thats all you can do to protest.....and with the prices there, I dont know why anybody shops there.....examples antipasto safeway 12.00, antipasto Superstore 6.99, boneless chicken safeway $17Kg boneless chicken superstore $8.99Kg......etc etc....
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But what do they pay the workers at Supertore? Do they have benefits? When the wages and benefits are higher, they have to pass the cost on to somewhere, which usually means higher prices on the goods. |
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| Quote: | LOS ANGELES - Grocery workers on strike or locked out for more than four months learned details of a new contract offer Saturday and began voting on whether to ratify or reject it.
If passed, current employees who now pay no health care premiums can expect to pay up to $60 per month for family coverage in the third year of the contract, according to a fact sheet distributed to union members. New hires would probably pay more.
Some were willing to live with that and other changes if it meant getting back to work. "It looks good, especially for the older people," said worker Armando De La Rosa. "I got five years left. I have to take what they offer."
The dispute between the UFCW and the supermarket operators — Albertsons Inc., Kroger Co. and Safeway Inc. — was seen as a referendum on affordable employee health care.
Current employees are paid an average of $15 an hour and most do not work full time. The union fact sheet makes no mention of a raise but did detail a ratification bonus of 30 cents for every hour worked in the year before the strike-lockout began.
Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers have said workers would be satisfied with the deal but have not commented on specific aspects of the proposal. The three supermarket chains involved also have not released details.
The proposed agreement also establishes a two-tiered scale for pay and benefits that separates current workers and those hired after Oct. 5. New employees would receive a lower wage rate and it would take them longer to get raises, said a source familiar with the contract.
The vote tally could be announced Sunday night. If the deal is ratified, some workers could be back at work by midweek.
The tentative agreement covers 70,000 workers in central and southern California. Since Oct. 11, about 59,000 workers have been on strike or locked out. The others continued working at other markets by special agreement while the contract was negotiated. |
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| [HALO] Mrs. Keyes wrote: | | Quote: | LOS ANGELES - Grocery workers on strike or locked out for more than four months learned details of a new contract offer Saturday and began voting on whether to ratify or reject it.
If passed, current employees who now pay no health care premiums can expect to pay up to $60 per month for family coverage in the third year of the contract, according to a fact sheet distributed to union members. New hires would probably pay more.
Some were willing to live with that and other changes if it meant getting back to work. "It looks good, especially for the older people," said worker Armando De La Rosa. "I got five years left. I have to take what they offer."
The dispute between the UFCW and the supermarket operators — Albertsons Inc., Kroger Co. and Safeway Inc. — was seen as a referendum on affordable employee health care.
Current employees are paid an average of $15 an hour and most do not work full time. The union fact sheet makes no mention of a raise but did detail a ratification bonus of 30 cents for every hour worked in the year before the strike-lockout began.
Officials with the United Food and Commercial Workers have said workers would be satisfied with the deal but have not commented on specific aspects of the proposal. The three supermarket chains involved also have not released details.
The proposed agreement also establishes a two-tiered scale for pay and benefits that separates current workers and those hired after Oct. 5. New employees would receive a lower wage rate and it would take them longer to get raises, said a source familiar with the contract.
The vote tally could be announced Sunday night. If the deal is ratified, some workers could be back at work by midweek.
The tentative agreement covers 70,000 workers in central and southern California. Since Oct. 11, about 59,000 workers have been on strike or locked out. The others continued working at other markets by special agreement while the contract was negotiated. |
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now that that is settled...those of u who live in the east......brace urselves...contract negotiations begin in march...
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| [HALO]cpt._Keyes wrote: |
now that that is settled...those of u who live in the east......brace urselves...contract negotiations begin in march... |
how about us southerners, when do they start?
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| Shockwave wrote: | | [HALO]cpt._Keyes wrote: |
now that that is settled...those of u who live in the east......brace urselves...contract negotiations begin in march... |
how about us southerners, when do they start? |
not rightly sure...ill have to ask...get back to you when/if i find out
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