Kroger store employees working at 39 stores in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new union contract on Monday. The contract provides increased pay while maintaining healthcare and retirement benefits and covers approximately 4,200 Kroger associates. The new contract takes effect immediately and extends through August 29, 2020. The workers are members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400.
On today's labor calendar, the film "Documented" screens free at American University at 7pm ; for the latest labor events, go to dclabor.org and click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1892, 20,000 workers, Black and White, staged a general strike in New Orleans, demanding union recognition and hour and wage gains. And in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced plans for the Civil Works Administration to create four million additional jobs for the Depression-era unemployed. The workers laid millions of feet of sewer pipe and built or made substantial improvements to hundreds of thousands of miles of roads, as well as thousands of schools, playgrounds and airports. Today’s labor quote is by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said: "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
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