Union Members at Giant and Safeway Approve New Labor Contracts

The contracts contain few big changes including difficult health care issues that trigger a re-start of negotiations next year.

Union members at two of the largest grocery store chains in the region approved new labor contracts Tuesday even as troubling health care issues threaten to force renegotiation of the agreements as early as next year. Workers at Giant Foods and Safeway ratified contracts in meetings Tuesday at the Cow Palace meeting hall at Timonium’s Maryland State Fairgrounds, according to United Food & Commercial Workers Local 27. Towson-based Local 27 represents about 8,500 affected workers in the greater Baltimore area and on the Eastern Shore. A new Giant store recently opened in Parkville Shopping Center. Containing modest wage increases, the agreement mostly preserves the existing contracts, with little change in health care and pension provisions…

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