Contract Ratification Meeting!!

Who:  All UFCW 555 Members covered under the Portland Master Food, Meat and CCK agreements
When: Saturday January 23, 2010
9am or 2pm or 7pm
Where: Holiday Inn, Portland Airport
8439 Northeast Columbia Boulevard
Portland, OR 97220

BRING the card that you recieve in the mail to gain admittance to the meeting without waiting in line!!  ID is required.  Member attendance only is appreciated.

The UFCW Local 555 Portland Area Grocery, Meat & CCK bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement with Albertsons, Fred Meyer, and Safeway.

More information on location, time and date of vote meetings will be available shortly. Mailers and flyers will be available to members with the details on how and where to vote.

Details of the agreement will not be released until the membership has had and opportunity to review the offer.

Bend  Bargaining for Albertsons, Fred Meyer and Safeway  is scheduled to continue on Saturday. Stay tuned for more details.

After three days of bargaining for Portland and Bend grocery, meat & CCK members at Albertsons, Fred Meyer and Safeway, bargaining has been extended to continue to work through key issue on the bargaining table. We will continue to provide updates as they become available on the hotline, website and via text message.

Your UFCW 555 Portland/Bend Bargaining Committee met for two days of negotiations on December 15 & 16 with the grocery employers.  While both sides exchanged proposals, no real progress was made as the employers continued to propose inadequate funding for your health care plan, and insist on a mix of bonuses and minimal pay increases for the wage package. Management's proposals continue to amount to significant paycuts for UFCW 555 members at Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertsons.

The committee was assisted by UFCW Vice-President and Region 8 Director Shaun Barclay, who took the employers to task for the companies' weak insurance proposal.  The bargaining committee restated their demands for real wage increases and proper funding for both the health insurance and retirement packages.

Next negotiations are set for January 11, 12 & 13.

Now is the time to send a strong message to management and join with thousands of your Portland area coworkers that have signed the petition urging management to settle a contract with living wages, affordable healthcare and a secure retirement.

UFCW Local 555 is the largest private sector union in the state of Oregon representing 19,000 workers throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.