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FCW Women’s Network lobbied in Sacramento, Calif., for three different bills that support workers.

Last week, members from the UFCW Women’s Network lobbied in Sacramento, Calif., for three different bills that support workers. The women from UFCW Locals 8, 135, 648, 1167, 1428, and 1442 talked to their state legislators about raising the minimum wage, the “Fair Schedule and Pay Equality Act”, and the “Grocery Worker Retention Act.” The three bills address core work issues that workers and their families are facing everyday in the state of California.

UFCW members are supporting raising the minimum wage in California because no family who is working full-time should live in poverty. They also talked about the “Fair Schedule and Pay Equality Act,” that would require large food retail employers who have 500 or more employees to provide their workers with a two-week advance notice of their work schedules. The third bill is the “Grocery Worker Retention Act.” The bill would would mandate that any new employer who purchases an existing grocery store must retain the incumbent workers of the grocery store for 90 days.

UFCW Local 8 Save Mart grocery store workers approved a new contract last week that covers more than 5,500 workers.

UFCW Local 8 Save Mart grocery store workers approved a new contract last week that covers more than 5,500 workers at approximately 110 Save Mart, S-Mart and Lucky stores throughout Central and Northern California. The terms of the new agreement are effective retroactively to November 17, 2014 and will expire in October 2016.

Some of the key highlights include:

• Returns, by seniority, the majority of the previously reduced Senior Clerks to $21.13 an hour and Senior Key Carriers to $21.31 an hour, remaining Senior Clerks are placed in progression steps going up to $18.50 an hour
• Employees currently earning $16.13 an hour will increase to $16.50, with progressions to $18.50
• Signing bonus to those not receiving an hourly increase
• Provides a Full-Time 45% ratio of combined grandfathered Senior Clerks and Multi-Purpose Clerks
• Contractual guaranteed 10% discount on employee purchases
• Additional Quarterly Bonus opportunities based upon the same formula as store management
• Schedule selection by seniority for full and part time employees
• Consecutive days off for full-time workers