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The contract at hand involved an increase inpreventative health-car programs and a wage increase, as well as a decreasse in pension benefits, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan said. However, workers had protested the pensionbenefif cuts, with the United Food and Commerciao Workers Union Local No. 7 warning that some coulds lose $100,000 over the life of the and said the wage increases werenot “We are ready, willing and able to get back to the bargainintg table if the corporation is willin g to meet us halfway,” King Sooperss worker Julie Gonzalez said in a news releas e put out by the union. “All we’r e asking for is a fair deal.
And we reallyg hope they don’t lock us out for asking for livabl wages and a pension plan that recognizes our contribution to company About 17,000 union workers from the area’s thred largest grocery chains — Albertsons, King Soopers and have been in negotiations with the grocersx since April 9 on new five-year contracts. Safeway workers have voted to extend theitr contract untilJune 26, whicbh Albertsons and King Soopers employees currently are working withouy contracts. The rejection of the latesty King Soopers contract proposal came quickly after votingfbegan Monday.
Workers in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Boulde r are voting today, while Pueblo workers are scheduler to castballots Wednesday. King Soopers spokeswomanj Diane Mulligan said that the rejectionb of the deal will not have any tangible effect onstord operations. King Soopers workers have not cast ballotsto strike. “We’re disappointe d in the vote, but we look forward to gettinb backto negotiations,” Mulligaj said Tuesday.
King Soopers is a unit of Cincinnati-based
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