ADVISORY/Countdown to Shutdown: Supermarket Workers to Announce Results of Strike Vote, Reveal Strike Details.News Editors/Business Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Friday (Oct. 10) --(BUSINESS WIRE) TIME: 11:00 a.m. DATE: Friday, Oct. 10, 2003 PLACE: Anaheim Hilton, 777 Convention Way, Anaheim Representatives of 70,000 supermarket employees, members of 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 , will announce their acceptance or rejection of the final contract offer by Albertson's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ABS (Automatic Backup System) See backup program. ), Kroger (Ralphs) (NYSE:KR) and Safeway (Vons) (NYSE:SWY SWY Safeway, Inc. (stock symbol) ). The profitable supermarket giants are attempting to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs onto their workers. Many could end up without health care for themselves and their families. Workers will reveal a plan to target only one of the three supermarket chains in order to reduce the inconvenience to customers during a strike. |
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