{"id":127798,"date":"2025-08-08T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127798\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:28:10","slug":"union-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-stater-bros-after-strike-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127798\/","title":{"rendered":"Union reaches tentative agreement with Stater Bros. after strike vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UFCW-Strike.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/UFCW-Strike.jpg\" alt=\"Stater Bros. picket signs\" class=\"wp-image-334720\"  \/><\/a>UFCW Local 324, based in Orange and southern Los Angeles counties, made picket signs last week before the tentative deal with Stater Bros. (File photo courtesy of UFCW Local 324)<\/p>\n<p>Grocery workers across Southern California\u00a0are set to vote on a new contract after negotiators reached a\u00a0tentative agreement\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.staterbros.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stater Bros. Markets<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to the United Food and Commercial Workers, the pact, if approved, will deliver \u201csignificant contractual improvements\u201d for more than\u00a012,000 union grocery workers, including over\u00a0650 represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/ufcw135.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFCW Local 135<\/a> in San Diego County.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, reached late Wednesday following what the union called \u201can intense two-day bargaining session\u201d in a news release, includes higher wages across classifications, improved pension and retirement security, faster and better access to health care, more staffing to reduce workloads and protections for workers against unfair labor practices.<\/p>\n<p>Workers will vote electronically to accept or reject the tentative agreement beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Voting closes the following day at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement comes after\u00a0months of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/business\/2025\/07\/29\/stater-bros-union-resume-contract-negotiations-wednesday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">strife<\/a>, including unfair labor practice strike authorization votes,\u00a0customer boycotts and organizing throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement is a direct result of the power and unity our members showed every step of the way,\u201d said\u00a0Todd Walters, president of UFCW <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/tag\/ufcw-local-135\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local 135<\/a>, adding that, \u201cour members made it clear that they won\u2019t settle for anything less than the respect they\u2019ve earned as essential workers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFCW Local 324, based in Orange and southern Los Angeles counties, made picket signs last week before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,78122,24963,3549,7264,78123,24590,14050,78124,78125,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-127798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-labor-dispute","12":"tag-labor-unions","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-stater-bros","16":"tag-supermarkets","17":"tag-tentative-agreement","18":"tag-ufcw-local-135","19":"tag-united-food-and-commercial-workers","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114990553792597273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}