Supermarkets face strike threat
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Supermarkets may be hit by strike action from a major food supplier embroiled in a pay dispute.
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The unions representing 65,000 Southern California grocery workers threatened to strike if a new contract with three major supermarket chains is not completed by June 21.
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Labor unions and three major supermarket chains in southern California expressed doubts on Monday about reaching an agreement on a new contract as a union-imposed deadline expires later this week.
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Supermarkets could face multi-million pound fines.
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Strike could take place in November if the corporation goes ahead with its redundancy plans.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers union protested the online grocery delivery company's decision to let go of scores of immigrant workers. A unionization vote is planned this weekend.
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Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees.
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The government warned consumers and retailers Monday to take urgent action to rid their shelves of more than 90 different products, from chili sauce to corned beef hash to dog food, produced at a plant linked to a botulism outbreak. Castleberry's Food Company closed the suspect plant.
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Jaguar car factory workers will be urged to fight the closure of the plant with a campaign which includes the threat of strike action.
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Supermarkets face a new showdown as labor unions determined to keep health benefits spar with management trying to compete with Wal-Mart.
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Postal workers are to stage another 24-hour strike as part of a continuing row over pay and jobs.
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A union warns of "very serious problems over Christmas" if its members vote to strike in a row over pay.
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The union representing 65,000 Southern California grocery workers threatened to strike if a new contract with is not completed by June 21.
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Business & money: Troubled supermarket chain will close around 90 of its stores.
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The main postal union is writing to Royal Mail to call for fresh talks to avoid the first national strike since 1996.
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Business & money: Supermarket chain to cut several hundred jobs, three months after saying its future was secure.
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Postal workers are due to stage a second one-day strike later today after meetings yesterday between Royal Mail's management and officials from the Communication Workers Union failed to break the deadlock in the dispute over pay and working practices.