Thousands of unionized grocery store workers have voted in favor of a new employment contract with major supermarket chains, preventing a strike that could have affected a large swath of California.
Roughly 47,000 employees of Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions and Albertsons stores in Southern and Central California were eligible to vote this week on the three-year contract. They voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of approval, the United Food and Commercial Workers union said Thursday. Specific numbers were not provided.
The union advised workers to vote yes on the pact after a lengthy negotiation process with the grocery stores that went into the early hours of Sunday morning. Union members had been working under a contract that expired March 3.
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