Los Angeles (ap)-after eight months of contract negotiations over trifling and, in the past, the strike period, will stay in southern California delayed the supermarket workers in work and shoppers won't have depends on the whole food or their corner groceries wine shop.
The area of the American food and commercial workers in favor of the members of the approved a new contract and the three chain grocery store, the local trade union spokesman Alan Anreder said, avoid a strike more than 60000 workers, can greatly weakened industry and left shopping interference.
The United States food and commercial workers local spokesman Allen Anreder said Saturday after voting for two days, committee members agree to trading on Monday, Ralphs and Albertsons Vons attacks. Not announced the exact total vote.
"We thank you very much for our customer support through the process of the eight months, thank you very much, we can continue to service for them," tired, but Anreder ease in voting said later.
The European Union officials have urged the rank and file of the contracts, they said approval in months of negotiation on employees' health insurance program funding, the main sticking point concerns.
"This package, protect our members access for himself and his family of affordable comprehensive health care," the union said in a statement. "This is the negotiation process the top priority of our work."
At the same time, the supermarket, agreed after the deal, it will let them remain competitive. Leave the representative of the grocery store after voting did not immediately return messages.
The details of the agreement first made for their application to the headquarters of the trade union local people or other voting site cast their votes, on Friday and Saturday members.
"There is a kind of relieved feeling, when people have the opportunity to see the new contract, look at what it is," Ralphs secretary and the union members Mario Frederick the said.
Processing end months, sometimes a disgruntled, eu officials Vons and represents the discussions between the; Ralphs grocery Co., LTD, a subsidiary of the company, kroger company; And Albertsons, this is by SUPERVALU company
Ralphs has said it will initially be close all the store's 250, if ever there was strike; Albertsons company said it could shutter as many as 100 locations, and has said, the Vons stores would open as usual.
Closed shop and nervous JiuChaXian brought worried about the prospect of a repeat of the 2004 four months of the strike, industry $2 billion for shoppers cost, create a mess. This time, in California, 12.1% of the unemployed workers apparently worry that they will find that almost no public sympathy, if they wanted to leave work.
Market chain, at the same time, may not be willing to invite downtime and JiuChaXian, shopping has been spending less, because of the economic depression, may alienate.
Union leader, and in July announced that they had reached an agreement, but the employer's contribution pension benefits of the market is still, the trade union health care trust fund pays.
Members of the alliance voters overwhelmingly voted last month to authorize their leaders called the strike. These leaders said they response chain "delaying tactics, when they needed a 72 hours notice Thursday night, they cancel a contract extension since march characteristics of the work.
But no strike, also is not processing through the deadline, on Sunday night, the store to return to work. The European Union officials said Monday, have reached a tentative agreement.
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