Tuesday is the day that unionized employees of Farmer Jack, the 70-store, Michigan-based division of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P), will vote on a new contract that the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) characterizes as being necessary to keeping the company from being closed or sold to a nonunion operator.
The Detroit Free Press reports this morning that while the terms of the new contract have not been disclosed, the union is describing it as "one-shot deal to try to save the stores and the jobs.”
While the union already approved a pay cut contingent on A&P finding a buyer for Farmer Jack, the company has been unable to sell the division, and this new vote will apply to the chain regardless of whether it is sold.
The Detroit Free Press reports this morning that while the terms of the new contract have not been disclosed, the union is describing it as "one-shot deal to try to save the stores and the jobs.”
While the union already approved a pay cut contingent on A&P finding a buyer for Farmer Jack, the company has been unable to sell the division, and this new vote will apply to the chain regardless of whether it is sold.
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Gun to the head time in Detroit.
It’s beginning to read like an Elmore Leonard novel.
