Richland Fred Meyer Bargaining Update
Our Richland Bargaining Team met with Fred Meyer on June 29 and 30 where we received the first contract proposal response from the Employer. Our team was able to return a full response to their proposals that includes: A fair wage packages, Quality and affordable Healthcare, and the Maintenance of retirement.
Our team is continuing to fight for:
A fair grievance process that gives workers the ability to enforce the terms of our union contract.
Workplace safety.
Just Cause standards to protect for unfair discipline and discharge.
In addition to two productive days of negotiations our Union Bargaining Committee was able to raise concerns with the Employer around recent unfair discipline and discharge of employees, especially on issues dealing with safety. With a union contract in place, we will be able to directly address these issues and more with the company.
The Employer is now considering our Union Bargaining Committees’ most recent full proposal and working on a response. Once all parties agree to the proposals and workers have had a chance to vote to ratify the agreement we will have a legally binding contract that will hold the Employer to their commitments and give power and protection to the workers at Richland Fred Meyer.
Our next bargaining date is July 27. We need to continue to show Fred Meyer that we demand our first contract now.
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