Colorado Public Radio reports that “a union representing workers at local grocery stores filed unfair labor practice charges against grocery store chains Kroger and Albertsons on Thursday because of an alleged illegal ‘no poaching’ agreement between the two chains.
“The complaint was filed by UFCW Local 7 with the National Labor Relations Board. It came a day after Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser filed a lawsuit asking Denver District Court to block a proposed $24.6 billion merger between the two chains. In that lawsuit, Weiser revealed that a yearlong investigation by his office discovered an alleged agreement between the two grocery companies to not hire each other’s employees.”
In a statement, the union said it was “dismayed to learn through AG Weiser’s Complaint that Kroger and Albertsons entered into an unlawful agreement during Local 7’s 2022 strike against King Soopers … ‘Despite what these companies might say publicly about their motivations or the professed positives of this merger, their actions show otherwise,’ President of UFCW Local 7 Kim Cordova said in a release. ‘The leaders of these companies cannot be trusted to do right by their employees or customers’.”
Of course, not every employee appears to feel that way.
The Oregonian reports this morning that “a labor union that represents thousands of grocery workers at Fred Meyer, Albertsons and Safeway stores in several Western states has endorsed a proposed merger between their parent companies.
“United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 on Monday announced its support of the proposed $24.6 billion deal between Kroger, the parent company of Fred Meyer and QFC, and Albertsons, which also owns Safeway.”
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