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Southern California grocery workers reject contract deal
Posted: Aug 21, 2011 10:13 AM by Kathy Kuretich, The Associated Press
Updated: Aug 21, 2011 12:41 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Thousands of Southern California grocery workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject a health care proposal from major supermarket chains and authorize their union leaders to call a strike.
United Food and Commercial Workers spokesman Michael Shimpock said more than 90 percent of voters on Saturday rejected the proposal from Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores.
Shimpock could not give precise numbers on turnout, but the union has about 62,000 voting members.
He says the union will report the results to the dispute's federal mediator on Monday and that more talks would likely follow.
Messages left for grocery store representatives late Saturday night were not immediately returned.
The new offer would charge workers about $36 a month for single or $92 a month for family coverage.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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