Welcome to your UFCW Local 1439!
Spokane Grocery and Meat contract negotiations are May 5, 2008 at 11am- about 5pm and May 6, 2006 at 9am- about 4pm at the UFCW Local 1439 office. The top four issues of these negotiations are Wages, Health & Welfare, Just Cause & creating more forty hour positions.
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March 28, 2008 At the Spokane negotiations on March 26, the parties spent most of the time discussing health and welfare proposals and funding. Our Local Union’s health and welfare proposals have been narrowed down to dental coverage for all, adding children to Level 1 coverage, updating the dental usual and customary formula, mental health parity, increasing the short term disability to $250 per week, and adding health care coverage for courtesy clerks 19 years of age or otherwise emancipated....(read more here)
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 March 13, 2008
President’s Report- An Injury to One is an Injury to All
Spokane Grocery and Meat Employer Proposal: An arbitrator shall not render an award which requires the employer to pay an improperly discharged or suspended employee for time that employee has not actually worked in excess of the wage and benefits the employee would have earned had he worked his normal schedule during the 90 calendar days immediately following the date of discharge. Nor shall the arbitrator be entitled to require the employer to pay benefits on behalf of an employee for a time period the employee has not actually worked in excess of the 90 days allowable....(read more)
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