{"id":124179,"date":"2026-02-05T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124179\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:02:07","slug":"ufcw-represented-freshdirect-workers-in-the-bronx-are-poised-to-strike-over-third-party-delivery-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124179\/","title":{"rendered":"UFCW-Represented FreshDirect Workers In The Bronx Are \u2018Poised To Strike Over Third-Party Delivery Proposal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UFCW_Logo.png\" alt=\"UFCW-Represented FreshDirect Workers In The Bronx Are \u2018Poised To Strike Over Third-Party Delivery Proposal\u2019\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Emily Swanson at The Bronx Times reports Union workers at the Grocery Delivery Company FreshDirect\u00a0are preparing for a possible Strike over the company\u2019s proposal to outsource more deliveries to a third-party company.\u00a0Longtime workers say their main fight is not about increasing wages or benefits &#8211; but preserving job stability. FreshDirect\u2019s Drivers, Runners and Loaders are represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 2013, which has a Bargaining Unit of about 670 employees.\u00a0The current contract, which expired at the end of 2025 and was extended until February 6th, allows 14% of deliveries to be handled by third parties. In negotiations, FreshDirect is now proposing to increase that number to 40% this year, 50% in 2027 and 60% in 2028, which UFCW Members say will result in the loss of Union jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To Read This Labor News Story In Its Entirety, Go To: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/freshdirect-strike-third-party-delivery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FreshDirect workers poised to strike over third-party delivery proposal \u2013 Bronx Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Swanson at The Bronx Times reports Union workers at the Grocery Delivery Company FreshDirect\u00a0are preparing for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5177,9,24,63,129,131,130,5178,5179],"class_list":{"0":"post-124179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-labor-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news","16":"tag-western-new-york","17":"tag-wny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}