Union says first contract offer from big three grocers ‘unacceptable’

The union that represents workers at Southern California’s three major supermarket chains on Friday strongly criticized the grocers’ first comprehensive contract offer, calling it “unacceptable” and making its first veiled threat of a possible work stoppage.
Representatives of Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons have been in talks with the United Food and Commercial Workers since early March, and union leaders say the chains had not made any offers on wages and benefits