Unilever Health & Welfare Plan for Hourly Employees in Suffolk, VA Unilever and UFCW Local 400 have begun the collective bargaining discussions required following the vote to unionize on 08/26/2016. While no contract is in place between Unilever and UFCW Local...
Tentative Agreement Reached with Safeway, But Giant Refuses to Budge We have reached a tentative agreement with Safeway that we are prepared to recommend for ratification at our contract meeting on November 16. After more than a month of negotiations, after extending...
Meetings Scheduled Through December Our first few meetings with Lipton representatives have gone very well. We are making progress and we have setup dates to continue negotiations through early December. Our talks have focused on “non-economic” parts of the contract,...
No Deal Reached Yet, Negotiations Continue On November 16, we will hold meetings for all Giant and Safeway union members at the D.C. Armory in Washington. As a member of Local 400, it is critical that you make every effort to attend this meeting. Request time off now...
Contract Extended – All Current Benefits & Protections Still Apply Contract Negotiations Update #5 Today we agreed to extend our current collective bargaining agreements with both Giant and Safeway on a day-to-day basis. This means that all of the benefits and...
Contract Negotiations Update #4 After fourteen days of bargaining with Safeway and Giant, and with only nine days until our contract expires, we remain far apart on nearly every issue. We continue to demand retirement security, accessible and affordable health care,...
