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Cub Foods in St. Paul's Midway neighborhood is closing on August 2, resulting in nearly 100 layoffs, primarily affecting unionized employees, as part of UNFI's efforts to optimize its store footprint.
Cub Foods employees and United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 663 reached a tentative agreement, averting a planned strike at 33 corporate-owned stores in the Twin Cities. The deal includes a new two-year contract, raises of $2.50 to $3.50 an hour by Spring 2024, and the conversion of 300 retail specialists to assistants with full-time positions. The agreement still needs to be ratified by union members during a vote scheduled for April 11.
Twin Cities Cub Foods employees have won a new contract, averting a potential strike. The new contract includes wage increases, improved health care benefits, and increased job security for the employees.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 has reached a tentative contract agreement with Cub Foods store owner UNFI, averting a two-day strike planned at more than 30 Twin Cities-area Cub Foods stores. The agreement includes wage increases of $2.50 to $3.50 an hour by spring 2024, and the creation of a safety committee. The contract also contains “huge wins” for part-time workers, and moves about 300 employees to full-time status. A ratification vote is tentatively planned for next Tuesday.
Union workers at 33 Cub Foods stores in the Twin Cities area plan to strike on Friday and Saturday, seeking better wages and benefits. The employees have been working without a contract since March 4 and allege unfair labor practices. Cub Foods says it has proposed wage increases and is willing to keep negotiating, but has contingency plans in place for the strike days. The planned walkout will not affect more than 40 other Minnesota Cub stores owned and operated by franchisees.
Employees at 33 Cub Foods stores in the Twin Cities area will go on strike on Friday and Saturday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the grocery store chain. The strike, organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 653, will affect approximately 20% of the company's workforce and could lead to shortages at affected stores.
Union employees of Cub Foods, which owns 33 stores in Minnesota, have voted to authorize a strike over alleged unfair labor practices, wages, and working without a contract for a month. The strike involves roughly 3,000 workers, and they plan to picket in front of stores on Friday and Saturday. Cub Foods has proposed historic wage increases and agreed to ongoing union health and pension plans, but the union elected to take a strike authorization vote instead of meeting with them to reach an agreement on terms for a new contract.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union who work at dozens of Cub Foods stores in Minneapolis and across the West Metro voted 94.5% in favor of a strike due to what they call “unfair labor practices.” The union represents more than 3,000 employees at 33 Cub Foods locations and is seeking higher wages for both full and part-time workers. The last contract negotiation was in 2018, and the contract ended on March 4. The union has to wait out the mandatory 10-day cooling off period before going on strike.