Hours Before Planned Strike Vote, Safeway Workers and Company Reach Deal to Strengthen Pay, Protect Healthcare and Pension OXON HILL, Md., March 5, 2020 — With just hours to go before a strike vote, at 2:00 a.m. March 5th, members of United Food & Commercial...
After six months of negotiations, and more than two weeks after we reached a tentative deal with Giant, we are pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with Safeway at 2:00 a.m. this morning. We will present the details of the proposed contract...
After negotiating into the night, we still do not have a deal with Safeway. What Safeway has on the table is still far from the tentative agreement with Giant. This week there has been no new progress. Safeway’s proposal still does not fully fund our pension. They...
Today we met with Safeway negotiators for the first time since Tuesday. While we made progress on several of our goals earlier this week, we remain far apart on pension. Safeway is continuing to refuse to fund our pension. A pension is a promise. After decades of hard...
10 Days Until Strike Vote at Safeway We met with Safeway negotiators today and yesterday for the first time since announcing our intent to take a strike vote if we are unable to reach a fair agreement. The last time we sat down with Safeway was on February 13. We made...
