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From pension help to federal regulations, unions welcome the Biden Administration Comes as various labor battles continue across Capital Region FacebookTwitterEmail Unions are encouraged and pleased so far with how the Biden Administration is treating them.SAUL LOEB/Getty ROTTERDAM Tom Baum and about 16,000 other retired Teamsters got some good news recently. The 29 percent pension cut they suffered three and a half years ago is being restored as part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan designed to pull the nation’s economy out of the economic mess created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive Rescue Plan contains $82 billion to help shore up pensions in general. ....
Unions usually like it when companies give the workers they represent more money. But UFCW Local 7 is deeply suspicious of the $100 bonuses that Kroger, the grocery giant that operates King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado, is offering to pay employees who agree to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Why? UFCW Local 7 president Kim Cordova portrays the move as a public-relations stunt designed to reassure customers and make Kroger look good, even though the company ended a so-called hero-pay bump of $2 per hour for employees in May 2020. Kroger providing $100 payments is a distraction from its decision to strip away $2/hour hazard pay nine months ago, Cordova maintains in a written statement. Our members are frontline, essential workers who have risked their health to go to work every day to keep the store running and their communities fed. In those nine months, Kroger has experienced record profits while nearly 600 of our Local 7 grocery members at King Sooper ....
Grocers sue Oakland over new $5-an-hour hazard pay mandate for supermarkets FacebookTwitterEmail A Safeway store on College Ave. in Oakland. Safeway offered hazard pay at the beginning of the pandemic and then withdrew it. Oakland is now requiring large grocers to pay workers $5 an hour more as hazard pay.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle The California Grocers Association on Wednesday sued Oakland, just one day after the City Council voted to require larger food sellers to give workers a $5-an-hour pay increase as compensation for the added risks and stress of operating on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic. The trade group, which represents most grocery stores in California, is seeking to have the new law declared invalid and unconstitutional. ....