LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Union workers at Arizona grocery stores operated by Kroger Co (KR.N) and Safeway Inc (SWY.N) set a Friday evening strike deadline if a contract agreement is not reached, a union spokesman said on Wednesday.
Some 25,000 workers at Fry’s and Safeway supermarkets around the state could walk off the job on Friday at 6 p.m. (0100 GMT Saturday) if salary and benefit terms are not reached, union spokesman Bob Grossfeld said.
Safeway and Fry’s signed a mutual lockout agreement in the event the union calls a strike at only one of the companies, according to an article in the Arizona Republic.
The agreement calls for the nonstriking company to lock out its union workers if a strike is called against the other.
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