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Mix-Ansicht- US/Streikende: längster US-Lebensmittelhandel-Streik zu Ende - zani, 01.03.2004, 11:21
US/Streikende: längster US-Lebensmittelhandel-Streik zu Ende
-->Guten Tag
(kleine inoffizielle Wahlkampfhilfe für Bush?)
REUTERS
By Gail Fitzer-Schiller
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Striking California grocery workers ratified on Sunday a new contract that puts an end to the longest-running grocery strike in U.S. history, the workers' union said.
The contract covering some 70,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union at three major supermarket chains -- Kroger Co. (KR.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Albertsons Inc. (ABS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Safeway Inc. (SWY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) -- was approved by an 86 percent margin, a spokeswoman for the union said.
Almost 900 stores were affected by the strike and lock-out, estimated to have cost the supermarkets more than $1 billion in lost sales.
The 20-week-long labor dispute centered largely on health care costs, with supermarket chains saying they could no longer afford to pay for the benefits without contributions from workers in the face of competition from non-union rivals like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
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