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Negotiation Update: Krug Workers
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Jerry Barlow--UFCW Local 186d
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Oct 22, 2001 17:11 PDT
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Monday, October 1, 2001
The following is the outcome of last Friday's negotiations:
1. Expanded on existing outside contracting language, that was
never discussed before today, that further threatens job security.
2. Introduced a variable government index which will apply only to
wage reductions (personnel consumer expenditures index).
3. Reduced general wage rate increases from 2% to 1.5%.
4. Expanded wage rate reductions from 3 categories to ten.
5. Company refused to consider the Union's package proposal.
6. Back in July the Union requested a federal mediator, Friday the
Company finally agreed.
The Union considers the Company's "base" offer as RETALIATORY for our
boycott activities, projecting for three years the current
unfortunate economic conditions in a self serving manner, and
inconsistent with their current public statements about their
business not being affected, and now even more unrealistic as
compared with industry standards! In view of Krug's latest offer tell
the press and whoever that it seems like this conflict will be
settled out in the retail market over what looks like will be a very
long period of time based on the resolve of the locked out workers
and the latest approach of Krug.
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