The union said it is pushing for higher wages, funding for health care and pension benefits and scheduling provisions.

"It makes us feel like they don't care about the people already working here": Safeway workers expressed disappointment as ...

Marcuz said he started at Safeway as a courtesy clerk and spent 13 years of his career in management before taking on a new ...

Safeway and union leaders are trying to agree on a contract before a strike deadline affecting 25,000 Northern California ...

Grocery workers in several Colorado cities entered their 18th day of a strike Wednesday against Safeway and parent company ...

A tentative agreement has been reached between UFCW 8-Golden State, UFCW Locals 5 and 648, and Albertsons Companies, the ...

"Albertsons and unions reach tentative agreement" was originally created and published by Retail Insight Network, a ...

The $24.6 billion purchase of Albertson, announced in October 2022, originally was designed to involve nearly 2,300 Albertsons and Safeway stores nationally, to complement Kroger’s lineup of ...

Cerberus helped finance Albertsons’ 2015 purchase of the Safeway grocery chain and attempted a failed merger with Rite Aid in 2018. Albertsons became a publicly traded company in 2020.

That year, Albertsons Inc. did what Safeway did eight years later: Gave in to pressures from discount retailers and put itself up for sale. The company was sold in three pieces for $17.4 billion.

PLEASANTON — Safeway announced on Thursday it had been bought by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in a $9.4 billion deal that will merge the Bay Area’s dominant grocery chain ...