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Grocery union's national leader presses for amicable resolution
Comments 0 | Recommend 0November 06, 2009 9:15 PM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Unionized Safeway workers in Colorado have voted to authorize a strike as contract talks drag on, but it's unclear if union leaders will OK one. United Food and Commercial Workers President Joe Hansen told UFCW Local 7 in a letter Friday that the international union has an obligation to exhaust amicable means for resolving disputes. He said the international union will push Safeway and King Soopers for a last, best and final contract offer, but he didn't mention a strike. UFCW Local 7 President Ernest Duran Jr. responded by asking union leaders to sanction a strike before the holiday season. UFCW Local 7 represents about 17,000 grocery workers at Safeway, King Soopers, City Market and Albertsons whose contracts expired in May.
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