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Oregon Workers Stand Strong for Good Jobs
Who: Members of UFCW Local 555 in
Portland, Oregon
What: Respect and dignity for Portland area
workers.
When:
UFCW members of Local 555 began negotiations July 16th, 2008
with The New Albertsons, Inc., Fred Meyer, Inc. (Kroger), and Safeway,
Inc.
What's At Stake:
Workers are standing strong together for issues related to the full Maintenance
of Benefits for Health and Welfare, scheduling practices that will allow senior
workers to access more hours, an article to allow vacation to be taken 1 day at
a time if desired, an increase in the pension contribution, a 3-year contract
with journeyperson wage increases of $1 per hour for each year of the contract,
substantial increases in the progression rates, and a majority sign up agreement.
THE LATEST NEWS...
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dedicated Local 555 bargaining site.
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BARGAINING
UPDATES:
 Message
from Collective Bargaining Director Ken SprayWe resolved some language issues that have no impact on your contract. Those language issues dealt with changing the Employers’ representative name to Allied Employer and deleting references to container clerks which is no longer a position in the stores thus no need for a classification...READ MORE Negotiations
continue in PortlandNegotiations continued September 16, 2008, at 10:15 a.m. between approximately 5200 workers in Grocery, Meat, and Combination Food/Non-Food Checkout (CCK) represented by UFCW Local 555 in Portland and the employers, The New Albertsons, Inc., Fred Meyer, Inc. (Kroger), and Safeway, Inc. UFCW Local 555 went back through some of their proposals from the July 26th bargaining session and explained their position on those proposals....READ MORE Workers
Standing TogetherUPDATE: The bargaining session scheduled for August 28th was cancelled by the employers. Please check back with groceryworkersunited.org for future updates....READ MORE
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