December 16, 2021
Todd Broderick - President, Denver Division Albertsons / Safeway Stores, Inc.
President Broderick:
The members of AFSCME Council 18 stand with the essential grocery workers at King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons in their struggle for a just and equitable contract. Essential grocery workers have kept our communities fed and healthy during an unprecedented pandemic. Furthermore, their working conditions are our shopping conditions, and their struggle for a safe workplace free from violence and with every protection possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19 affects us all.
As worker that keep our communities thriving, we know that workers deserve--at a minimum--a living wage, affordable healthcare, and the retirement security of a fully funded pension. It is unacceptable that your companies are making record profits and have chosen to siphon that money out of our communities and into the pockets of millionaire CEOs and investors via bonuses and stock buybacks while workers get sick and die.
We stand in solidarity with essential grocery workers and demand that King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons sign a contract without delay that provides:
• Safe Workplaces
• Reliable Schedules
• Living Wages
• Affordable Healthcare
• Full-time jobs
• A Sound Pension Benefit
• Equal Pay for Equal Work (No Two-Tier)
• Hazard Pay
We commit ourselves to support the struggle of essential grocery workers. We will respect any established picket lines both at stores and online and will encourage our communities to do the same.
Sincerely,
Connie Derr - Executive Director, AFSCME Council 18
December 16, 2021
Joe Kelley - President, King Soopers/City Market
President Kelley:
The members of AFSCME Council 18 stand with the essential grocery workers at King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons in their struggle for a just and equitable contract. Essential grocery workers have kept our communities fed and healthy during an unprecedented pandemic. Furthermore, their working conditions are our shopping conditions, and their struggle for a safe workplace free from violence and with every protection possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19 affects us all.
As worker that keep our communities thriving, we know that workers deserve--at a minimum--a living wage, affordable healthcare, and the retirement security of a fully funded pension. It is unacceptable that your companies are making record profits and have chosen to siphon that money out of our communities and into the pockets of millionaire CEOs and investors via bonuses and stock buybacks while workers get sick and die.
We stand in solidarity with essential grocery workers and demand that King Soopers, City Market, Safeway, and Albertsons sign a contract without delay that provides:
• Safe Workplaces
• Reliable Schedules
• Living Wages
• Affordable Healthcare
• Full-time jobs
• A Sound Pension Benefit
• Equal Pay for Equal Work (No Two-Tier)
• Hazard Pay
We commit ourselves to support the struggle of essential grocery workers. We will respect any established picket lines both at stores and online and will encourage our communities to do the same.
Sincerely,
Connie Derr - Executive Director, AFSCME Council 18
