This news is for the southern California area Teamsters and other areas served by this council.
Essential Food Warehouse Workers and Truck Drivers Need Affordable Health Care to Keep the Food Supply Chain Moving
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Essential Food Warehouse Workers and Truck Drivers Need Affordable Health Care to Keep the Food Supply Chain Moving
In the midst of a pandemic that has affected hundreds of their co-workers, food supply-chain workers, along with elected leaders and community supporters turned out for a socially-distanced shopping bag/leaflet distribution and demonstration at a Southland grocery store to draw attention to the 4,000-plus Teamster warehouse workers and truck drivers that deliver food and supplies to Southern California grocery stores who are facing the possibility of a work shutdown.
Working under a tenuous contract extension, workers and their employers – Albertsons (includes Vons and Pavilions) and Kroger (includes Ralphs and Food4Less) – have been in contract negotiations since early August and are deadlocked over a main issue: the grocers' effort to take away affordable health care from workers' families.
Working under a tenuous contract extension, workers and their employers – Albertsons (includes Vons and Pavilions) and Kroger (includes Ralphs and Food4Less) – have been in contract negotiations since early August and are deadlocked over a main issue: the grocers' effort to take away affordable health care from workers' families.
Despite record profits and huge executive compensation, area grocery chains are demanding that hardworking Teamster families bear the brunt of the increased cost of health care, an expense no family can afford in these tough times. The workers' request is simple: that the grocers continue to provide affordable family health care, which the employers can clearly afford.
A strike would cause a major disruption in the food supply chain from San Diego to Santa Barbara and impact millions of Southern Californians customers just before the holidays when so many people are preparing food at home. The workers are asking the public to put pressure on the grocery employers to do the right thing and maintain their current health care costs. For more information, go to www.Healthyworkers-safefood.com to learn more or sign the petition.
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