TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020 MODIFICATION – NATIONAL PENSION FUND President Niccollai reported today that Local 464A, apart from maintaining its own Pension Fund for the majority of the membership, historically participates in the National Pension Fund for Full-Time Employees of Finast in Long Island and ACME in New York and New Jersey.  The Local Union does not administrate this Plan; it is administered by a Board of Union and Company Trustees. In order to assure the continued payment of Pension Benefits for the participants of the National Pension Fund into the future, an Agreement was...
COVID-19 UPDATE HAZARD PAY QUESTION: Do our Company Owners and Company Executives truly recognize the importance of Supermarket Workers during this deadly Pandemic? The top three groups of essential workers during this Covid-19 nightmare have been classified as follows: 1.      Health Care and Public Health Workers 2.      Law Enforcement and Public Safety Workers such as Police, Fire & EMTs 3.      Grocery Store Workers Health Care and Public Health Workers are needed primarily when we are ill.  Law...
COVID-19 UPDATE : HAZARD PAY President Niccollai reported today that we have concluded the ads directed at our Supermarket customers run in major newspapers, concerning the wrongful reduction and/or termination of “hazard pay”. Our campaign for justice will now swing over to social media and will be directed at our Employers, again concerning the wrongful reduction of and/or termination of “hazard pay”. In addition, your Union is observing that many of our Employers are failing to abide by mandated safety practices and are exposing our membership to unsafe working conditions.  Union...