POSITIVE PROGRESS ON KINGS AND ACME CONTRACT RAISES AND RETRO PAY President Niccollai reported today that as everyone is aware, your Union has been in constant contact with every possible source in order to get our contract raises and retro pay money from Kings Supermarkets and ACME Markets.  Apparently our efforts are now turning out to be successful and the wage raises may hit in as early as the first or second week in July; the retro pay should follow shortly thereafter. I have personally had numerous and extensive meetings and conversations with Dan Dosenbach and Joan Williams who...
RAISES AND RETRO PAY FOR MEMBERS OF KINGS SUPERMARKETS AND ACME MARKETS President Niccollai reported today that several members have inquired as to the status of the raises and retro pay for our Brothers and Sisters of Kings and ACME. As we all know, both Kings and ACME were purchased by Albertson’s through the Bankruptcy Court.  Your Union bargained hard with the purchasers and we managed to successfully maintain all the terms and conditions of our prior contract.  Prospectively, we were also able to exceed the amazing terms and conditions of our Industry Contract from these...
WAGE INCREASES IN COMPANY SELECTED STORES AND DEPARTMENTS President Niccollai reported today that it has come to your Union’s attention that several of our Employers are unilaterally granting wage increases in stores and departments they select because of alleged difficulty in staffing the stores. We want all members to understand that your Union certainly has no objection to our members receiving wage increases, in fact, we encourage it.  What is unfair, inequitable and discriminatory is the fact that Employers are not granting these starting wage rate increases Company-wide to all...
TELEPHONIC JUNE 15, 2021 MEMBERSHIP MEETING The General Membership Meeting for Tuesday, June 15, 2021 will be held telephonically at 7:00 P.M.  Members who wish to participate should contact JoAnn Piscitelli at 973-256-6790 in order to verify membership and obtain access instructions for participating.  To hold the meeting telephonically, we must notify the Host Company as to the approximate number of participants.  We must, therefore, ask members who would like to participate to contact JoAnn Piscitelli no later than Tuesday, June 8, 2021.