﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>UFCW Local Union 75 News</title><link>http://www.localunionwebsite.com</link><description>The latest news from UFCW Local Union.</description><item><title>Visit UFCW Local 75 Benefit Plan on the Web!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Visit UFCW Local 75 Benefit Plan on the web. &amp;#160;You'll find&amp;#160;downloadable forms,&amp;#160;your schedule of benefits, answers to your most frequently asked questions,&amp;#160;wellness resources, and more! &amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=53</link><pubDate>9/7/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Supermarket News: Kroger, Roanoke Workers OK New Contract</title><description>&lt;p&gt;ROANOKE, Va. — Kroger Co. workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 204 here have voted to ratify a new contract, the Cincinnati-based retailer said Monday. The deal covers 2,000 associates working at 18 Kroger stores i</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=52</link><pubDate>8/24/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo Kroger Bargaining Ongoing</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The Bargaining Committee resumed negotiations on Saturday, August 21, 2010, for all contracts with Kroger in Toledo.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Local 75 and the Company exchanged comprehensive economic proposals including health care, wag</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=51</link><pubDate>8/22/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Kroger Bargaining Resumes; Chief Contract Extended</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;The Union Bargaining Committee will continue negotiations on Saturday, August 21, 2010, for all c</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=50</link><pubDate>8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Bargaining continues with Kroger in Toledo; Contracts extended</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; "&gt;&amp;#160;Bargaining continued on&amp;#160;Saturday,&amp;#160;August 7,&amp;#160;2010, for all contracts with Kroger in Toledo.&amp;#160; The</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=49</link><pubDate>8/8/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo Kroger Bargaining Update</title><description>&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial"&gt;Bargaining continued on Thursday, August 5, 2010, for all contracts with Kroger in Toledo.&amp;#160; We reviewed and exchanged language proposals for Grocery and Non-Food </description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=48</link><pubDate>8/5/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Bargaining Continues with Kroger in Toledo</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Currently, we are in the process of bargaining for nearly 3,000 workers at Kroger in Toledo; these contracts, originally scheduled to expire in April, have been extended through August 7.&amp;#160; Contracts covering nearly 30,000 UFCW membe</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=47</link><pubDate>8/4/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Local 75 is on the move!</title><description>&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;
&lt;p style=&amp;qu</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=46</link><pubDate>7/29/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Shaw's Warehouse Workers Ratify New Contract, Ending Strike</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;Methuen, Mass. – Associates at the Shaw's Methuen (Mass.), who are members of UFCW Local 791,&amp;#160;distribution center have ratified a mediator-recommended settlement agreement, ending the strike that began March 7. The four-ye</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=45</link><pubDate>7/9/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Local 75 Awards Steve Fricke Memorial Scholarships</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; ms</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=44</link><pubDate>6/25/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>UFCW Local 876 (Detroit) Ratifies Agreement with Kroger</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Members of Local 876 in Michigan have ratified a new three-year contract with Kroger. The contract coversaround 12,000 members at more than 100 Kroger stores.&amp;#160; The new contract includes bonuses of up to $1500 for workers, as well as</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=43</link><pubDate>6/24/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>UFCW Local 876 (Detroit) Reaches Tentative Agreement with Kroger</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Madison Heights, MI - June 10, 2010 - The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 876 has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with Kroger for 12,000 Michigan workers. Details of the tentative agreement will be distributed</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=42</link><pubDate>6/15/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo American Red Cross Workers Strike to Protest Unfair Labor Practices</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, June 2, 2010, UFCW Local 75 joined seven Red Cross unions from coast to coast in a strike to protest unlawful unfair labor practices arising from the collective bargaining negotiations with the American Red Cross. Bargaining issues in</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=41</link><pubDate>6/2/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo Kroger Bargaining Update</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial"&gt;On Monday, April 26, Local 75 conducted Area Report Meetings detailing the cost of proposals.&amp;#160; The Toledo Kroger Market is comprised of </description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=38</link><pubDate>5/4/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Workers at AFG Win a Voice on the Job</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Around 50 workers at the American Food Group&lt;br /&gt;
hamburger plant in Sharonville, Ohio, a suburb of&lt;br /&gt;
Cincinnati, voted overwhelmingly for a real voice at&lt;br /&gt;
work with Local 75 on April 23. The six-month&lt;br /&amp;</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=37</link><pubDate>4/29/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Local 75 Handbills Members at Toledo Red Cross</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;Local 75 members at American Red Cross blood services handbilled&amp;#160;co-workers on Saturday, April 11, as we continue the fight for a fair contract.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&amp;id=7377253?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=36</link><pubDate>4/13/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Ohio AG Rich Cordray Fighting Back to Protect Health Care</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;Click on the link to see the Attorney General Richard Cordray's interview on PBS NewsHour.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june10/healthcare_04-01.html?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=35</link><pubDate>4/5/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Workers at Silgan Can Ratify New Three Year Agreement</title><description>&lt;p&gt;New Contract for Nearly 200 Members of UFCW Local 75 at Napoleon Plant Overwhelmingly Ratified&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On March 28, 2010, workers at Silgan Can Company ratified a new three year agreement covering nearly 200 workers; workers at S</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=34</link><pubDate>3/29/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo Kroger Contracts Extended</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Bargaining for nearly 3,000 members of UFCW Local 75 working at Toledo Kroger stores began this spring; three agreements (Grocery, Non-Food, and Meats) expire this April.&amp;#160; After membership surveys, training members of the Bargaining</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=33</link><pubDate>3/26/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Toledo Kroger Bargaining Update</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, Mar</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=23</link><pubDate>3/19/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>UFCW Local 75 Scholarship Application Now Available</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Applications for the 2010 Steve Fricke Memorial Scholarship are now available. &amp;#160;Register and log-in to access the Members Only Content for the rules and application. &amp;#160;Applications must be postmarked by May 15, 2010.&lt;/p&amp;g</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=22</link><pubDate>3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Local 75 Begins Bargaining with Toledo Kroger</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We're in this together.  Today, March 4, UFCW Local 75 kicked off Kroger bargaining in Region 4 (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky) with bargaining for the Toledo Kroger Grocery, Meat, and Non-Food Agreements.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The challen</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=20</link><pubDate>3/4/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Local 75 Holds Rally for ARC Blood Services Members</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Our brothers and sisters at American Red Cross (ARC) Blood Services in&amp;#160;Toledo are fighting for a fair contract, one that protects livable wages and affordable health care.&amp;#160; In Toledo, and across the country, Red Cross is tr</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=8</link><pubDate>2/23/2010 6:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>UFCW continues fight for affordable health care</title><description>&lt;p&gt;External link: UFCW continues fight for affordable health care&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http:///www.ufcw.org/issues/health_care/?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=9</link><pubDate>2/22/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>Campbell's Soup Members Ratify New Contract</title><description>&lt;p&gt;New Contract for Nearly 1,100 Members of UFCW Local 75 at Napoleon Plant Overwhelmingly Ratified&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NAPOLEON, OH - - Workers at Campbell's Soup ratified a new three year agreement covering nearly 1,100 workers at the Campell</description><link>?ModuleId=465&amp;ItemId=2</link><pubDate>1/31/2010 12:00:00 AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>