DENVER—Unionized grocery workers at Safeway and King Soopers stores in Colorado who didn’t ratify the companies’ last, best, final contract offers are voting on a new deal.
Most King Soopers workers voted last year to accept the earlier offers that included signing bonuses, raises, and health insurance improvements, and Albertsons workers also have accepted them. Safeway workers rejected them.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 says Safeway workers and some King Soopers workers who rejected the earlier deal will vote over the next couple of weeks on the new proposal, which pumps $12 million into retirees’ health and welfare fund, preventing a 21 percent hike in retirees’ health insurance premiums. UFCW Local 7 represents about 14,000 grocery workers.
