10,000th Shopper to Sign Petition Supporting Grocery Workers, Massive Collection to be Delivered to Albertsons Management.BUENA PARK Buena Park (bwā`nə), city (1990 pop. 68,784), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1953. Food processing, the manufacture of aircraft, and tourism are important to the city's economy. , Calif. -- The WHEN section should read: Friday, March 9, 9:30 a.m. (sted Approximately 9:30 a.m.) The corrected release reads: 10,000(TH) SHOPPER TO SIGN PETITION SUPPORTING GROCERY WORKERS, MASSIVE COLLECTION TO BE DELIVERED TO ALBERTSONS MANAGEMENT UFCW UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324:
WHAT: 10,000(th) Consumer signs petition supporting a fair contract
for Grocery Workers, gets $100 gift certificate to Stater
Bros market. The 10,000 signatures will then be presented
to Albertsons management.
WHERE: Albertsons Market, 6931 La Palma Ave., Buena Park, CA
WHEN: Friday, March 9, 9:30 a.m.
VISUALS: 10,000(th) consumer signing petition, presentation of gift,
presentation of huge stack of petitions to management,
grocery workers gathering signatures in front of store
Only four days after the United Food and Commercial Workers The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and Union and the three largest grocery chains in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, signed an agreement extending their current contract by two weeks, petitioners are on track to collecting the 10,000th signature from Albertsons shoppers urging that company to sign a fair collective bargaining agreement The contractual agreement between an employer and a Labor Union that governs wages, hours, and working conditions for employees and which can be enforced against both the employer and the union for failure to comply with its terms. with its employees. The campaign to collect signatures began several weeks ago at select Albertsons stores throughout the region and is designed to remind the company that the customer service their employees provide is a main reason the stores have grown so profitable. "The customers have always been our most powerful resource," said Greg Conger, president of UFCW Local 324 based in Buena Park. "More than anybody else, the shopping public knows how important grocery workers are in shaping their shopping experience and how important they are in making their stores as profitable as they have become." "We encourage consumers to shop at all union stores, including Albertsons," he said. "The gift certificate is meant to highlight the fact that one major chain, Stater stat·er 1 n. A resident of a particular state or type of state. Often used in combination: Lone Star staters; farm staters; the struggle between slave staters and free staters. Noun 1. Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . markets, has recognized the value of its employees by signing a fair contract. We're hopeful that, in the end, Albertsons will follow their lead." The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is the largest private-sector union in the United States, representing 1.2 million workers nationally, about 20,000 of them in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. |
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