81-Day Puget Sound Grocery Strike Ends
From Associated Press
SEATTLE —
An estimated 8,000 grocery clerks and meat cutters agreed to end an 81-day strike that forced Puget Sound supermarkets to cut back their hours.
Members of the Food and Commercial Workers union, who had walked out May 11, voted Sunday night to accept a three-year contract that provides raises and continues Sunday premium pay, which employers had sought to cut, said union spokeswoman Sandi Hubler.
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