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Email this StoryFry's workers plan to rally against strike
Posted - 11/9/2009 at 12:17PM
PHOENIX (AP) - Fry's food store workers plan to rally Monday against a planned strike.
Organizers said they plan to picket outside union headquarters in downtown Phoenix to show their opposition to member leadership, who they say have barred them from voting on a new labor agreement with the employer.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 99 represents most hourly employees at Fry's and Safeway.
The union has threatened to call a strike if the companies and the union fail to reach a contract by 6 p.m. Friday. The union and the companies have been negotiating for more than a year.
Some union workers opposing a walkout said they don't want to be out of work over the holidays.
Fry's is already advertising for temporary workers in case a strike happens.
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