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The contract at hand involved an increases inpreventative health-care programs and a wage as well as a decreases in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswomamn Diane Mulligan said. However, workeras had protested the pensionbenefit cuts, with the Uniteds Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some coule lose $100,000 over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increasesa werenot enough. “Wes are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargaining table if the corporation is willing to meet us King Soopers worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news releasde put out bythe union.
“All we’re asking for is a fair And we really hopethey don’t lock us out for askinb for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizew our contribution to company profits.” Aboutg 17,000 union workers from the area’s three largest grocery chains — King Soopers and — have been in negotiationxs with the grocers since April 9 on new five-yearf contracts. Safeway workers have vote d to extend their contract untilJune 26, which Albertsone and King Soopers employees currently are working withou t contracts. The rejection of the latesyt King Soopers contract proposal came quickly aftert votingbegan Monday.
Workers in Colorado Longmont and Boulder arevoting today, whil Pueblo workers are scheduled to cast ballots Wednesday. King Soopersx spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangible effect onstore operations. King Soopere workers have not cast ballotsto strike. “We’re disappointed in the vote, but we look forward to getting backto negotiations,” Mulligab said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-baseed
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