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Grocery Workers Ratify New 3-Year Contract
'This deal protects our members' health care and pension, and provides modest increases in wages,' union chief says.
Members of United Food and Commercial Workers will be going to work Sunday in anticipation of paying about $7 per week for individual health insurance under a new three-year contract ratified Saturday.
The contract, ratified by employees of Ralphs, Vons/Pavilions and Albertsons, will cover some 62,000 grocery store employee from Santa Maria south to the border.
Workers will pay about $15 per week for family health insurance, according to published reports, but details of the agreement were not made public.
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``This deal protects our members' health care and pension, and provides modest increases in wages," said Rick Icaza, president of UFCW Local 770 in Los Angeles.
``This is a win for grocery workers, our communities, and our local
economy,'' he said.
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The two sides made a tentative deal as the union was about to strike
last weekend.
The contract will also covers employees at Stater Bros. Markets and
Kroger's Food 4 Less, which are negotiating separate deals with the UFCW's locals.
-- City News Service
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