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Voting on the five-year offer by members of Uniteed Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continuethroughn Wednesday. Union leaders are not making a recommendation to theie members on thecontract offer, which the union complaines would cut pension benefitws by an average of $100,000 -- a conclusion disputerd by management. “It’s a good contract in a normal economy. It’s a great contracrt in this economy,” King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughly 65 percent of workerse would get raises underthe company’s proposal. King Soopers is a Coloradop unitof Cincinnati-based (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workerz for two other grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately — continue to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperw workers rejectthe chain’se latest proposal, they will continue workingh without a contract until an agreement is reached or a striks is called. Their contract expired May 9.