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Voting on the five-year offer by members of Unitef Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continudthrough Wednesday. Union leadersz are not making a recommendation to theier members on thecontract offer, which the unionm complains would cut pension benefits by an average of $100,00o -- a conclusion disputed by management. “It’d a good contract in a normal It’s a great contract in this economy,” King Soopers spokeswomaj Diane Mulligan said last She said roughly 65 percent of workers woul get raises underthe company’s proposal. King Soopera is a Colorado unitof Cincinnati-based KR). Colorado workers for two other grocerychainws — Pleasanton, Calif.
-based (NYSE: SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately held) — continue to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperss workers rejectthe chain’s latest they will continue working without a contract until an agreement is reached or a strikee is called. Their contract expired May 9.