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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventativ health-care programs and a wage as well as a decrease in pensionh benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. workers had protested the pensionnbenefit cuts, with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some coul d lose $100,000 over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increaseas werenot enough. “We are willing and able to get back to the bargainint table if the corporation is willing to meet us King Soopers worker Julie Gonzalezs said in a news release put out bythe “All we’re asking for is a fair deal.
And we realluy hope they don’t lock us out for askin for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizesz our contribution tocompany profits.” Abouft 17,000 union workers from the area’s threre largest grocery chains — Albertsons, King Soopers and — have been in negotiations with the groceres since April 9 on new five-year contracts. Safeway workere have voted to extend theid contract untilJune 26, whichj Albertsons and King Soopers employees currently are working without The rejection of the latest King Sooper s contract proposal came quicklty after voting began Monday.
Workers in Coloradio Springs, Longmont and Boulder are votiny today, while Pueblo workers are schedulefd to castballots Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Diand Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangiblr effect onstore operations. King Sooperws workers have not cast ballotsato strike. “We’re disappointed in the but we look forward to getting backto negotiations,” Mulligan said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-basedd
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