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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventative health-care programsd and a wage increase, as well as a decreaswe in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulliganb said. However, workers had protested the pensionbenefit cuts, with the United Food and Commerciao Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some couled lose $100,000 over the life of the benefits, and said the wage increasesx werenot enough. “We are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargainingb table if the corporation is willing to meetus halfway,” King Sooper s worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news releaser put out by the “All we’re asking for is a fair deal.
And we reallhy hope they don’t lock us out for askingy for livable wages and a pension plan that recognizez our contribution tocompany profits.” About 17,000 unionn workers from the area’s three largest grocery chains — Albertsons, King Soopers and — have been in negotiationx with the grocers since April 9 on new five-yeard contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extendr their contract untilJune 26, whic h Albertsons and King Soopers employees currently are workinf without contracts. The rejection of the latest King Sooperd contract proposal came quicklgy after votingbegan Monday.
Workers in Colorado Springs, Longmony and Boulder are voting today, while Pueblo workera are scheduled to castballotss Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligamn said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangiblse effect onstore operations. King Sooperws workers have not cast ballotsto “We’re disappointed in the vote, but we look forward to gettinv back to negotiations,” Mulligan said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-basede
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