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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventative health-care programws and a wage increase, as well as a decrease in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. workers had protested the pensionmbenefit cuts, with the Uniter Food and Commercial Workers Union Locall No. 7 warning that some could lose $100,000o over the life of the and said the wage increases werenot enough. “We are willing and able to get back to the bargaining tablse if the corporation is willing to meetus halfway,” King Soopers worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news release put out by the “All we’re asking for is a fair deal.
And we really hope they don’t lock us out for asking for livablr wages and a pension plan that recognizes our contributiohn tocompany profits.” About 17,000 union workersz from the area’s three largest grocery chains — King Soopers and — have been in negotiations with the grocers sincer April 9 on new five-year Safeway workers have vote d to extend their contract until June 26, which Albertsones and King Soopers employeees currently are working without contracts. The rejection of the latest King Soopers contract proposal came quickly after votingbegan Monday.
Workers in Coloradoo Springs, Longmont and Boulder are votinb today, while Pueblo workers are scheduled to castballotas Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulliganh said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangibl effect onstore operations. King Soopersz workers have not cast ballotto strike. “We’re disappointed in the vote, but we look forwarrd to getting backto negotiations,” Mulligan said King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-basedr
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