Supermarket Workers Win Tentative Agreement

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

UFCW Locals 400 and 27 report they have reached a tentative agreement with Giant Food and Safeway which will be submitted to the membership on Tuesday, April 1. “Community support was vital to winning this agreement,” Local 400 President James Lowthers said Sunday. Activists and allies are urged to continue support activities – especially the worker support cards – through Tuesday, when the contract ratification vote will be held.