A last-minute agreement has been reached between Twin Cities grocery store workers and Cub Foods that heads, heading off a planned weekend strike.
Announcement of the agreement came just before 2:00 a.m. Friday, hours before the strike was to begin.
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 representing more than 3,000 employees at 33 Cub locations announced overnight a tenative agreement that will provide raises of between $2.50 and $3.50 an hour by this time next year.
“What we have done, is we have re-written the history, and the future, for 3,000 souls and countless ahead of us,” said Pam Wilson, a head Customer Service Manager at Cub - Eagan East. “We are a more powerful union now, and we are only going to continue to build our power together.”
Those workers had remained on the job without a new contract since their last one expired in early March.
The rank and file will vote on the tenative agreement on Tuesday.
It is expected to pass.