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Grocery workers, stores reach tentative agreement; potential strike averted By City News Service
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tentative agreement was reached Monday in negotiations between the union representing Southern California grocery workers and stores including Ralphs and Vons/ Pavilions/Albertsons, avoiding a potential strike. "Once our members have had an opportunity to review and vote, we will release more information on this historic and transformational deal. Nothing is final until our members decide," a statement from the seven United Food and Commercial Workers International Union locals representing the workers said. "We are incredibly proud of our essential grocery members, whose hard work
Vons market in Claremont, Calif. | Photo courtesy of Russ Allison Loar/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
and determination to stand together and willingness to fight for what they deserve, has made this agreement
possible." Ralphs "was pleased that this agreement allows us to put more money in
our associates' paychecks and secures health care and pension plans," its vice president of operations,
Robert Branton, said in a statement. Terms of the agreement were not released.
Union officials said they had been seeking a $5-perhour wage hike, phased in over the next three years, along with bolstered safety standards and "adequate scheduling and hours." The stores had offered annual 60-cent-per-hour wage increases over the next three years, totaling $1.80. A three-year labor contract between the unionized grocery workers and Southern California supermarkets expired March 7. Employees continued to work under the terms of the previous contract. Members of seven UFCW locals between Central California and the Mexico border had voted "overwhelmingly" last month to authorize a strike.
Trainer Hollendorfer defends record despite horse deaths at Santa Anita By City News Service
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longtime race horse trainer defended his record Monday in the first phase of trial of his lawsuit
against the owners and operators of Santa Anita Park -- who barred him from working there after four equine fatalities at The Stronach Groupowned track in Arcadia as well
as two at Golden Gate Fields in early 2019. Jerry Hollendorfer told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maurice Leiter that if his 10 prior years at Santa Anita are
examined, he is "way down from the top" when compared to other trainers whose horses have died under their supervision. The judge is being asked
to decide only one issue -- Hollendorfer's bid for declaratory relief -- in which the trainer maintains the defendants could not exclude him without the approval of
the California Thoroughbred Trainers, a trade association representing horse trainers. See Santa Anita horse Page 3
