After the Membership’s resounding rejection of the proposed four year Central Indiana Kroger contract, Local 700 and Kroger have agreed to return to the bargaining table and find a path forward.
The Union Bargaining Committee and Kroger will meet again Wednesday and Thursday next week. With the possibility of a strike now on the table, all affected members should consider the following points:
- A strike for better wages and/or better working conditions (known as an “economic strike”) is considered legally protected activity under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
- Economic strikers retain their employee status while participating in an economic strike.
- Employees are not compelled to join the strike if they do not wish to join.
- Kroger has the right to permanently replace economic strikers.
- Employees have the right to return to work if they offer to return to work on an unconditional basis and if their position has not been permanently filled by a replacement.
- If Kroger hires permanent replacements, employees lose their right for immediate reinstatement if there are no positions available. If there are no positions available, economic strikers who have been permanently replaced are placed on a preferential hiring list.
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