MINNEAPOLIS — On April 15 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 at the Cub Northside grocery store here organized an informational picket line to bring awareness to the contract issues they face.
Local 663 members who work at Cub Foods and two other grocery chains — Kowalski’s and Lunds & Byerlys — in the Twin Cities region are in contract negotiations.
“We are out here today to come together with the union members in the store and other UFCW members across the city,” Jennifer Greenfield, a union shop steward at Cub, told the Militant. “We are joined by other workers, including the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 22 members who work in the adjacent bakery, and members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers.
“One of the biggest contract issues we are bringing attention to is on the health insurance changes,” she said. “The company wants to restructure it so that we will have to pay a much greater share and there will be automatic premium raises every year. This is not the only issue, but it is a main one.”