Posts tagged strike vote
Safeway, Albertsons union workers to vote next weekend on possible strike
May 28, 2025 // According to UFCW Local 7, which represents the union workers of Safeway and Albertsons, the company and union have been negotiating for eight months, most recently meeting on Friday, May 23. The union stated in an update posted to Facebook that Safeway agreed to “important language items” sought by the bargaining committee, “including a new drug and alcohol rehabilitation policy and protection of Drive Up and Go shopper work.”
Safeway, Albertsons union workers to vote next weekend on possible strike
May 27, 2025 // According to UFCW Local 7, which represents the union workers of Safeway and Albertsons, the company and union have been negotiating for eight months, most recently meeting on Friday, May 23. The union stated in an update posted to Facebook that Safeway agreed to “important language items” sought by the bargaining committee, “including a new drug and alcohol rehabilitation policy and protection of Drive Up and Go shopper work.”
UnityPoint Health-Meriter RNs to strike beginning next week
May 22, 2025 // EIU Wisconsin gave the hospital a 10-day notice earlier this month that almost 1,000 nurses would join the strike. A hospital spokesperson said at the time that the strike was set to last through June 1, and that hospital leadership respected the nurses' rights. In a statement, Market Chief Nursing Officer Sherry Casali said the hospital and union have held 22 bargaining sessions since contract negotiations started in January. "We believe our most recent proposal will continue to keep Meriter nurses as some of the best-paid nurses in Wisconsin, as well as the top-paid nurses in our local community," Casali said.
Oregon: Clackamas County’s largest public employee union votes to strike
April 4, 2025 // The union represents more than 1,000 public employees. They work in a variety of departments, including public health, parole and probation and the parks district. Union leaders have yet to provide the county with a formal 10-day notice that they intend to strike, but said in an email that members have authorized them to provide the notice “at any time.”
Costco Increases Pay to Over $30 an Hour for Most Store Workers
January 30, 2025 // Workers at the bottom of the scale will get raises of 50 cents to $20, according to the memo. The changes apply to employees at non-union locations. Costco, which is based in Issaquah, Washington, declined to comment. The company and the union that represents thousands of its workers are in negotiations over a new collective bargaining contract. The current contract is set to expire on Friday, and Costco Teamsters — which represents less than 10% of the company’s roughly 219,000 employees in the US — has voted to authorize a strike, demanding better pay and benefits.
Costco’s unionized workers vote to authorize a strike
January 20, 2025 // Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters union have voted in favor of going on strike. The strike will start if no deal is reached by the January 31 deadline. Teamsters president Sean O'Brien has pledged to win "the strongest contract in Costco's history."
Union representing King Soopers workers scheduling a strike vote following failed negotiations
January 19, 2025 // Contract negotiations began back in October. Since then, the two sides have met 13 times but have been unable to reach a deal. Thursday night, King Soopers offered up its last, best and final terms.
Shawn Fain was Kamala Harris’ most forceful union backer. It could cost him his job
December 30, 2024 // United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain was one of the most prominent union leaders backing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s US presidential election and one of the harshest critics of Donald Trump while on the campaign trail. And because of that, he’ll have a powerful enemy when Trump takes back the White House on January 20.
Philadelphia’s largest city workers union votes to authorize strike; no walkout at this time
November 15, 2024 // District 33 has vowed to give a 10-day warning about any strike. The union represents at least 9,000 mostly blue-collar employees, including sanitation workers. They have been working without a contract since July
Union wants management off the GM assembly line or workers will strike
November 4, 2024 // “If I didn’t have to get national authorization, I would have struck on Oct. 2,” LeTourneau said. Two other GM plants – Bowling Green (Kentucky) GM that produces Corvettes and Tonawonda Engine in New York are also refusing to accept management on their lines. Both plants refused to “exploit temporary workers,” LeTourneau said. “If you’re not going to hire them, they’re not helping us.” The problem is that part-time temporary workers who work 32 hours a week can be strung along as temps “forever” because there’s no provision to hire them. They have to be temps for nine months in order to get hired, LeTourneau said.