{"id":312866,"date":"2026-10-23T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:12:06","slug":"grocery-workers-in-pennsylvania-ratify-new-contract-the-united-food-commercial-workers-international-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312866\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Workers in Pennsylvania Ratify New Contract &#8211; The United Food &#038; Commercial Workers International Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casting for a fresh new contract: Deli clerk Tylid Alexander votes in the recent election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty members of <a href=\"https:\/\/ufcwlocal152.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFCW Local 152<\/a> who are employed by The Fresh Grocer approved a strong four-year agreement last month. Meat, Seafood, and Deli Department workers at the store\u2019s two Philadelphia-area locations received immediate, across-the-board wage increases, with a market adjustment benefit for department managers and classified positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contributions to the Retirement Savings Plan also went up, and members will receive additional paid personal holidays to make up for Pennsylvania\u2019s lack of state-mandated paid sick leave. Time off for bereavement leave was also expanded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, new language was added to ensure that workers are prepared for emergencies by requiring the employer to have ongoing discussions with union representatives about health and safety in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UFCW Local 152\u2019s Recorder\/Executive Vice President Lisa Sanders said the new agreement is a win for workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCongratulations to members of Fresh Grocer on ratifying a strong new collective bargaining agreement that benefits everyone,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cThe workers now have higher starting rates, annual wage increases, additional paid time off, and they maintain their good union benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casting for a fresh new contract: Deli clerk Tylid Alexander votes in the recent election. Forty members of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}