Minnesota Bakery Workers Accept Wage Freeze

MINNEAPOLIS – Bakers Local 22 members employed by Lund Food Holdings ratified a new two-year agreement with no concessions, but including a two-year freeze on wages.

The company agreed to make modest increases into the Health and Welfare Fund for 2011 and 2012, provided that workers match the increase.

The agreement, ratified June 19, covers 100 workers who work in the retail bakery departments at Lunds and Byerly’s grocery stores and 85 who work in the company’s main bakery in Eden Prairie.

Lund Food Holdings, Inc. is the parent company to 10 Lunds and 11 Byerly’s supermarkets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.

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