CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that the Union Negotiating Committee met with the Companies’ Negotiating Committees for the fifth time in an attempt to hammer out a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
Based upon the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Shop Stewards Seminar originally scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, 2020 has been cancelled. Any attempts to hold a Seminar of this magnitude at the Local 464A Union Auditorium would not only be a violation of State law and CDC Guidelines, but would also not be in the best interest of the safety and welfare of our outstanding Shop Stewards.
We are hopeful that we will once again be able to schedule this most important training seminar for our Stewards next year.
Every participant who has a vested accrued benefit under the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 464A Pension Fund, the Local 464A Finast/Stop & Shop Employees Pension Plan, or the New York-New Jersey Amalgamated Pension Plan for ACME Employees and who is employed by an employer who contributes to the Pension Funds may request a statement of his or her accrued benefit from the Pension Funds. The benefit statement is an estimate of the monthly benefit you have earned, based on the latest information available to the Pension Funds.
Part-time Members who are enrolled in the Welfare Fund may enroll their eligible child dependents. “Eligible child dependents” include natural or adopted children of a Member up to age 26. Children involved in a legal adoption process will be covered when placed, provided the children otherwise meet the requirements of the Welfare Fund as a dependent.
The 2023 Scholarship Awards Dinner, was held on Thursday, August 3, 2023, at the Local Union Headquarters in Little Falls, New Jersey. Scholarships were awarded and the following recipients were honored: Riley F.
Do you know that your Plan, as required by the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998, provides benefits for mastectomy-related services, including all stages of reconstruction and surgery to achieve symmetry between the breasts, prostheses, and complications resulting from a mastectomy, including lymphedema.
Call the Maxon Company at 1-800-999-3309 for more information
Working safely and working smartly in our supermarkets, warehouses and processing plants has become demanding and stressful. Apart from the wearing of masks and observing social distancing, many of us have also become policemen finding it necessary to regulate the actions of customers and some coworkers to assure proper safety. Unfortunately, the situation may get worse before it gets better, especially if we see a large spike in the number of cases in the New York-New Jersey Metro Area.
Important Notice from the Local 464A United Food & Commercial Workers' Union Welfare Service Benefit Fund
The new COVID-19 World has changed so many of our practices and procedures. Among those changes are the manner in which we negotiate our Collective Bargaining Agreements.
As we know, our contract demands and selection of those to serve on the Contract Committee were all conducted at store level to avoid hundreds of people congregating at the Union Hall. The demands have been tentatively formulated and will be reviewed by the Contract Committee, which was selected by the Executive Board Members working for that particular Company participating in negotiations.
One thing we can all be sure of is that neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President Joe Biden will take full responsibility for supporting you and your family – that’s our obligation. So then what are the things that matter about the candidate we support from a Union point of view, based upon economics and a better lifestyle?
First, no one likes to be told which candidate they must vote for, and this article will not do that. Second, we also will not deal with personalities and will not insult the integrity of either candidate.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that the fourth negotiating session was held involving ShopRite, Stop & Shop and Foodtown via Zoom this morning. Kings again failed to participate in the meeting, and it appears that we will be negotiating with whoever is the successful bidder through the Bankruptcy Court.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that the fourth negotiating session was held involving ShopRite, Stop & Shop, and Foodtown via Zoom this morning. Kings again failed to participate in the meeting, and it appears that we will be negotiating with whoever is the successful bidder through the Bankruptcy Court.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
NATIONAL PENSION FUND VOTE
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2020
TELEPHONIC SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Based upon the Coronavirus Pandemic social gathering restrictions, and also in order to assure membership safety, the General Membership Meeting for Tuesday, September 15, 2020, will be held telephonically at 7:00 P.M. Members who wish to participate should contact JoAnn Piscitelli at 973-256-6790 in order to verify membership and obtain access instructions for participating.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
UFCW AND STOP & SHOP HAZARD PAY AGREEMENT
Today our International Union, along with Stop & Shop, announced an agreement to make a lump sum, retroactive payments to resolve and, for the present, terminate the issue of hazard pay.
that he along with our bankruptcy attorneys and the other four Local Unions holding contracts with Kings supermarkets
have been working tirelessly together every day searching for the best solution to a most difficult problem. The paramount issue that weighs heavily on my mind is the fact that we are dealing collectively with the livelihood of 2,000 of our brothers and sisters at a time of massive unemployment.
We have to measure that against a proposal that completely guts our contract and takes away our respectability by;
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that Kings posted another propaganda video designed to paint the Company as the best friend of all workers in their employ. The problem with the presentation is that it is being painted with a broad brush as one size fits all, and it is not truthful or accurate.
There are several facts we must address to set the record straight as follows:
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that the Union and representatives of ShopRite, Stop & Shop, and Foodtown continued the negotiations process. Kings failed to attend the session and will be noticed regarding their behavior.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that Kings failed to attend the second Multiemployer Negotiating Session yesterday. It appears that the Company may have fired their Attorney of 32 years who had participated in the first negotiating session.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
COURT FILINGS AND MULTIEMPLOYER NEGOTIATIONS
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2020
KINGS BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
President Niccollai reported today that since Kings Supermarkets has filed documents in the Bankruptcy Court your Union is permitted, as a matter of law, to discuss matters which were previously restricted by confidentiality limitations.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2020
TO ALL MEMBERS OF KINGS SUPERMARKETS
CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI – SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020
STOP & SHOP DAILY HEALTH SCREENING FOR STORE EMPLOYEES BASED UPON
MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR OPERATING RETAIL BUSINESSES
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2020
MODIFICATION – NATIONAL PENSION FUND
President Niccollai reported today that Local 464A, apart from maintaining its own Pension Fund for the majority of the membership, historically participates in the National Pension Fund for Full-Time Employees of Finast in Long Island and ACME in New York and New Jersey. The Local Union does not administrate this Plan; it is administered by a Board of Union and Company Trustees.
COVID-19 UPDATE
HAZARD PAY
QUESTION:
Do our Company Owners and Company Executives truly recognize the importance of Supermarket Workers during this deadly Pandemic?
The top three groups of essential workers during this Covid-19 nightmare have been classified as follows:
1. Health Care and Public Health Workers
2. Law Enforcement and Public Safety Workers such as Police, Fire & EMTs
3. Grocery Store Workers
COVID-19 UPDATE : HAZARD PAY
President Niccollai reported today that we have concluded the ads directed at our Supermarket customers run in major newspapers, concerning the wrongful reduction and/or termination of “hazard pay”.
Our campaign for justice will now swing over to social media and will be directed at our Employers, again concerning the wrongful reduction of and/or termination of “hazard pay”.
COVID-19 UPDATE
HAZARD PAY
President Niccollai reported today that in addition to filing grievances against all our Employers regarding the reduction and or elimination of “hazard pay”, we have also commenced a social media campaign asking for the help of our supermarket customers. Attached herewith is a message that will appear in several widely circulated newspapers and on social media.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2020
COVID-19 UPDATE
REGION 1 STANDS UNITED CONCERNING HAZARD PAY
President Niccollai reported today that all Local Unions constituting Region 1 of our International, joined forces in notifying all our Employers not to reduce our Hazard Pay. Once the notice has been received by the Companies we will be at liberty to release the contents of our demands.
WORK SMARTLY – WORK SAFELY
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020
President Niccollai reported that tomorrow, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 has been designated as International Workers’ Memorial Day. This is an opportunity, in part, to recognize the outstanding contributions and sacrifices of all our Brothers and Sisters who are participants of UFCW Local 464A.
In commemoration, many of our Employers at approximately 10:00 A.M. will participate in a moment of silence for those who have fallen ill and those we have lost.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020
UPDATE ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC
POSSIBLE TREATMENT DRUG FOR CORONAVIRUS
SHOWS SUCCESS IN CHICAGO HOSPITAL
COVID-19 UPDATE
HAZARD PAY
President Niccollai reported today that in addition to filing grievances against all our Employers regarding the reduction and or elimination of “hazard pay”, we have also commenced a social media campaign asking for the help of our supermarket customers. Attached herewith is a message that will appear in several widely circulated newspapers and on social media.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
UPDATE ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC
UNION NEGOTIATED EXTENSION OF BONUS PAY
FOR THOSE WORKING AND HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR THOSE ON CORONA LEAVE
President Niccollai reported today that the Union has contacted our Employers and has been successful with negotiations on several issues vital to our membership.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020
UPDATE ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC
LOCAL UFCW UNIONS, ALONG WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL, CONTINUE TO DEMAND GREATER SAFETY AND ECONOMIC PROTECTIONS FOR MEMBERS
According to the latest statistical analyses of COVID-19 cases from both New York and New Jersey, it appears that new cases are starting to plateau, although the loss of life is peaking. The reason for this stems from the fact that those we are losing, for the most part, were sickened weeks ago.
Please check out UFCW 464A President John T. Niccollai as he explains the dangers of gas-infused meat products being sold in your supermarket!
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019
UPDATE ON AHOLD eCOMMERCE (STOP & SHOP) NEGOTIATIONS/RATIFICATION VOTE RESULTS
President Niccollai reported this morning that the ratification vote concerning the Ahold eCommerce tentative agreement is as follows:
222 YES
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE
FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019
UPDATE ON STOP & SHOP CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND
With all Local Unions ratifying the New England Stop & Shop Settlement, members are elated as to the terms of the newly negotiated contract.
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019
A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI
TO ALL STOP & SHOP MEMBERS
APRIL 8, 2019