Statement of United Food and Commercial Workers International President Marc Perrone on Safeway Albertsons Merger
31 January 2015 - 8:41AM
Business Wire
Marc Perrone, International President of the United
Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), today
released the following statement in response to Safeway’s merger
with Albertsons:
“More than 250,000 Safeway and Albertsons workers are members of
the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). UFCW members
also work for several other Cerberus Capital Management-operated
supermarkets across the country, including Albertsons, Acme,
Jewel-Osco and Shaw’s.
“UFCW members have a history of negotiating union contracts with
Safeway, Albertsons and Cerberus Capital Management. Together in
their union, these workers have been able to ensure that union
grocery jobs are the best jobs in the industry with fair pay,
decent benefits, and job security – all the while ensuring that
their companies are able to be profitable and successful.
“UFCW members in California stores that were divested by
Albertsons are pleased to learn that the grocery store chain Haggen
will acquire many Albertsons stores in California. Haggen workers
in the Pacific Northwest are also members of the UFCW. UFCW members
across the country are looking forward to working with Safeway,
Cerberus, and Haggen on issues that pertain to the members and
industry. Our members plan to continue to serve their customers and
their communities with pride.”
The United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union (UFCW) represents more than 1.3 million
workers, primarily in the retail and meatpacking, food processing
and poultry industries. The UFCW protects the rights of workers and
strengthens America’s middle class by fighting for health care
reform, living wages, retirement security, safe working conditions
and the right to unionize so that working men and women and their
families can realize the American Dream. For more information about
the UFCW’s effort to protect workers’ rights and strengthen
America’s middle class, visit www.ufcw.org, or join our online
community
at www.facebook.com/UFCWinternational and www.twitter.com/ufcw.
UFCWJill Cashen, 202-255-8435press@ufcw.org