After meeting with our union negotiators and leaders, your union is doing our best to get negotiations back on track.

But so you know, this is what your employers tried to do to you on Tuesday, and why your union had to break off negotiations:

The employers proposed cutting their contribution towards our health care by nearly 50% over last years contribution:

They proposed grabbing 80% our safety reserve in the health care trust fund, money paid in as part of your compensation, to subsidize the employers contributions, not yours;

And they proposed making your premiums some of the highest, if not the highest, of any grocery workers in the nation.

The employers are trying to deliberately underfund your health plan, like they've done in other regions across the US, where benefits had to be severely reduced, sometimes more than once, because there wasn’t enough money in the trust fund.

We will not allow this to happen here. That is why we walked out of negotiations yesterday.

We had to make a point that we would not accept more takeaways like this.

Because of our action, the employers realized they overreached and made a mistake. That is why they are now publicly requesting we return to negotiations.

We will reach out and try to get negotiations back on track. But will not allow the markets to destroy our health care and deny you a fair wage. We will stand together to get a contract that respects grocery workers and gives us what we are entitled to.

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