CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Union workers have ratified a four-year contract with Kroger Co., the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer.þþMembers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400, based in Roanoke, Va., on Monday approved the contract by a 3-1 margin, said local spokesman Michael Byrne. The Cincinnati-based grocery chain had reached a tentative agreement with the union earlier this month. Details were not disclosed.þþThe union local covers 3,500 workers in 47 stores in Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.þþKroger shut down 44 stores in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio for about two months in 2003 when 3,300 members of the same local went on strike over health care benefits and other issues.þþ
Source: NY Times
