Grocer’s Union Says It’s Trying

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Contract negotiations between representatives of Southern California’s three largest supermarket chains and 65,000 union workers continued at a secret location Thursday. But as the give-and-take continued for a second day, there was no word of any breakthrough, the Los Angeles Times reports.


New proposals had been delivered to the Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons chains, United Food and Commercial Workers spokesman Mike Shimpock said, but he offered no details. The spokesman for the stores, Brad Chase, said discussions with the union were ongoing and set to continue today.


The three chains are subsidiaries of much larger companies. Vons and its Pavilions stores are owned by Safeway Inc. of Pleasanton, Calif. Albertsons is owned by Supervalu Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Ralphs is a division of Kroger Co. of Cincinnati.


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