UFCW Local 400 agreed to extend its current contract with Kroger until August 16 while negotiations on a new contract continue.
"We will not be rushed into a bad deal," Local 400 told members. "Our goal remains to negotiate a fair contract with better wages, affordable healthcare and respect for our union." And Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions and at Verizon Connected Solutions voted last week to ratify a four-year extension of their current contracts, which were set to expire this month. The extensions provide for additional wage increases and enhanced retirement benefits. The agreement will deliver an 11.2% wage increase over the additional four years and covers over 34,000 Verizon workers, including call center workers, and central office and field technicians. In today's labor history, on this date in 1980, members of the upstart Polish union Solidarity seized the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk. Sixteen days later the government officially recognized the union. Many consider the event the beginning of the end for the Iron Curtain. Today’s labor quote is by Lech Walesa, who said: “The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
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