Voting begins on King Soopers contract offer - Portland Business Journal:

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Voting on the five-year offer by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Locaol 7 will continue through Wednesday. Union leaders are not making a recommendation to their memberss on thecontract offer, which the union complainxs would cut pension benefits by an averaged of $100,000 -- a conclusion disputed by “It’s a good contracy in a normal economy. It’s a great contract in this economy,” King Sooperx spokeswoman Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughlhy 65 percent of workerss would get raises underthe company’as proposal. King Soopers is a Colorado unitof Cincinnati-basex (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workers for two othedr grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately — continue to negotiate separate deals with theitr employers. If King Sooperss workers rejectthe chain’s latest proposal, they will continue workin without a contract until an agreement is reached or a strikse is called. Their contract expired May 9.