Safeway Workers Approve Strong New Contract, Avoid Strike

Safeway Workers Approve Strong New Contract, Avoid Strike

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...
Giant & Safeway Contract Negotiations to Continue

Giant & Safeway Contract Negotiations to Continue

A joint statement from UFCW Local 400 & UFCW Local 27: Through 13 weeks of negotiations, six weeks of working on an extended contract, and dozens of protests involving thousands of members, we’ve made it clear that we will not accept a second-rate contract and we...
Report: Private Equity Greed Threatens Safeway Workers’ Retirement

Report: Private Equity Greed Threatens Safeway Workers’ Retirement

Report Finds Cerberus Tries to Make Employees Pay for High Debt Load Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns Albertsons-Safeway, is trying to make workers in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas pay the price for their high, unsustainable...