Save Mart Supermarkets demote senior clerks, cut pay about $5 an hour [View all]
Source: Sacramento Bee
With tensions already high with its labor union, Save Mart Supermarkets has imposed a pay cut on as many as 150 of its highest-paid union workers in the Sacramento region.
Save Mart said the move was permitted under its contract with the United Food and Commercial Workers. The affected workers were demoted from senior clerk positions, cutting their hourly pay to around $16 from $21, starting Sunday.
Alicia Rockwell, a spokeswoman for Save Mart, said the move was prompted by staffing ratios spelled out in the contract. Because of "store closures and current economic conditions," she said the Modesto grocery chain had more senior clerks than required.
... Jacques Loveall, president of UFCW Local 8 in Roseville, said the union "will do everything necessary to protect our members' rights" under the contract.
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