by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

Sounds like a big win for the grocery workers, from this press release, but we really won't know until the details come out on Sunday after the vote. It is wonderful that there will not be a strike and it appears that they got what they wanted from the negotiations`.

Today Representatives of the Grocery Workers Union and the Management of Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons reached a tentative contract agreement. Details of the agreement are not being released until grocery workers vote to ratify the deal Sunday, July 22nd. All seven locals covered by the contract will recommend ratification to their members.

Negotiators have continued talking under contract extensions since the original contract expired on March 5th. The successful negotiations were mediated by Deputy Director Scott Beckenbaugh and Commissioner Joe Mansolillo of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

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