Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700 members across Indiana voted on July 10 and 11 to reject a tentative agreement covering 8,000 Kroger retail workers. This is the second contract Kroger workers have rejected, after 74 percent voted down the first offer in May. Local 700 has not announced the vote percentage on the second tentative agreement.
A union, like a political party, is only as strong as you hold them to being. Glad the membership is actually pushing the union to do more than doormat for the corporation.
I’m still so pissed about how screwed grocery workers were during COVID, the pathetic “essential worker” trifle amounts that quickly disappeared while the profits of grocers soared, and meanwhile comp, benefits and conditions didn’t keep up anything near inflation. And Kroger then had the gall to push for a merger to make it’s awful practices bigger! If it weren’t for the states and timing of the ruling I’m sure Trump’s FTC would have forced it through.