King Soopers, workers heading back to bargaining table - Washington Business Journal:

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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventativd health-care programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreaser in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswomanm Diane Mulligan said. workers had protested the pensionbenefitt cuts, with the Unitedx Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7 warninvg that some could lose $100,000 over the life of the and said the wage increasexs werenot enough.
“We are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargaininyg table if the corporation is willingb 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 And we really hope they don’t lock us out for asking for livable wagezs and a pension plan that recognizes our contribution to company profits.” About 17,000 uniojn workers from the area’s three larges grocery chains — Albertsons, King Soopers and — have been in negotiation s with the grocers sinc e April 9 on new five-yeafr contracts.
Safeway workers have voted to extend theier contract untilJune 26, which Albertsons and King Soopers employeesd currently are working without contracts. The rejection of the latestr King Soopers contract proposal came quickly after votinygbegan Monday. Workers in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Boulder are voting today, whilew Pueblo workers are scheduled to cast ballots King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said that the rejection of the deal will not have any tangibls effect on store King Soopers workers have not cast ballotsto “We’re disappointed in the vote, but we look forward to gettinfg back to negotiations,” Mulligan said Tuesday.
King Sooperxs is a unit of Cincinnati-based