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Voting on the five-year offer by membersx of United Food and Commercial Worker Local 7 will continuethrough Wednesday. Uniobn leaders are not making a recommendation to thei r members on the contract which the union complains would cut pensioj benefits by an averageof $100,000 -- a conclusiojn disputed by management. “It’s a good contractt in a normal economy. It’s a great contractr in this economy,” King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligam saidlast week. She said roughly 65 percent of workersz would get raises underthe company’ s proposal. King Soopers is a Colorado unitof Cincinnati-basee (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workers for two other grocerychains Pleasanton, Calif.-based (NYSE: SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privatelyt held) — continue to negotiatde separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperx workers rejectthe chain’s latest they will continue working without a contract untip an agreement is reached or a strike is called. Their contracrt expired May 9.