TENTATIVE CONTRACT AGREEMENT REACHED FOR PUGET SOUND GROCERY WORKERS

Voting on recommended contract set to begin Sunday, August 26^th

 

Seattle – United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), representing over 20,000 grocery and retail workers in Puget Sound, has reached a tentative agreement in contract negotiations with Safeway, Albertson’s, Fred Meyer and QFC. Beginning Sunday, August 26^th—through the following Tuesday—members will vote on a recommended three-year contract, negotiated by a bargaining team that included twenty-three fellow members employed at stores throughout the region.

 

Negotiations between the three chains and UFCW Local 21, Local 44 and Local 81, went into the early morning hours the last three days of bargaining, ending Sunday morning, August 19^th. This tentative agreement comes after over five months of bargaining sessions and over a hundred days past the initial contract expiration date.

 

Details of the contract will be available after members have completed voting.

 

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