Giant & Safeway Stewards Prep For 2012 Bargaining

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Joining together to prepare for what will likely be a challenging round of bargaining with Giant and Safeway early next year, 330 stewards gathered May 5 to prepare for the upcoming negotiations and commit themselves to mobilizing members to join together in solidarity. “We’ve got to stand together as one,” Local 400 President Tom McNutt told the stewards, “because we’re up against greedy, amoral multinational corporations that care about nothing other than their bottom line and we’re up against global economic and domestic political forces arrayed against us.” Click here to read the full report.
- report by Bruce Kozarsky; photo by Bill Burke/PageOne