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  • Safeway.com drivers become the first home grocery delivery workers to unionize


    In mail ballots counted Feb. 25, a unit of 53 Portland-area Safeway.com delivery drivers voted 30-18 to join the Teamsters. Employed by Groceryworks.com Operating Company LLC—a subsidiary of Safeway—they pick up groceries ordered online and deliver them to nearby homes in refrigerated box trucks.

    The campaign began Sept. 30 with a shot in the dark by brand-new organizer Bobby Rispler on his first day on the job. Safeway.com drivers in Olympia and Seattle had joined the Teamsters and won a $2-an-hour raise, a “90-10” health insurance plan and a $1 an hour pension contribution. Rispler decided to talk to Portland-area drivers.

    “Pardon me for intruding, but what’s the pay like?” he asked the first driver he saw. “Horrible!” the driver replied, adding, “We don’t have a union!”

    Rispler gave his card to the driver.

    Rispler had seen what a union could do in 18 years at UPS. He became a steward six years ago, and in September took an indefinite leave from UPS to attend a three-day union organizing school and become a full-time Teamsters organizer.
    https://nwlaborpress.org/2020/03/saf...s-to-unionize/

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    Re: Safeway.com drivers become the first home grocery delivery workers to unionize

    The above group of workers at Safeway.com have won their first contract !

    Portland-area Safeway.com drivers win raises in first Teamster contract
    A group of 82 Portland and Vancouver-area Safeway.com delivery drivers locked in raises of about $2.25 an hour in their first-ever union contract with Teamsters Local 162 and 58. The workers are employed by a Safeway subsidiary to deliver online grocery orders to nearby homes in refrigerated box trucks.

    The three-year agreement, ratified overwhelmingly Sept. 10, also enrolls the workers in the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension. Employer pension contributions start at $1 per hour and grow to $1.20 in the third year.

    Safeway raised pay $1.50 an hour during the union campaign, possibly hoping to discourage a “union yes” vote. Those raises remain, and workers won another 75 cents. Under the contract, wages start at $16.75 and rise to $19.20; the top rate rises to $20.30 in the third year.
    https://nwlaborpress.org/2020/10/por...ster-contract/

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