November 29, 2008 in City

Union taking contract fight with grocers public

Billboards, ads urge shopping at Rosauers
Bert Caldwell Staff writer
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Area grocery workers are putting up yard signs, renting billboards and running radio and television ads in an unprecedented effort to convince consumers they should shop at Rosauers, and not Albertsons, Safeway or Fred Meyer.

Larry Hall, president of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1439, said the union decided to launch its “contract campaign” because negotiations have failed to resolve wage and benefit issues, as well as disputes over hours and the firings of workers for what he characterized as “inadvertent” mistakes handling money.

In at least one case, he said, a nine-year employee of Fred Meyer was fired …

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