The deal follows five months of negotiations and growing strike momentum from the 16,000 Safeway employees represented by the unions in the Bay Area.

Before an agreement was reached, grocery workers across Northern and Central California prepared to strike starting on ...

The tentative agreement includes meaningful wage increases, a secure retirement plan, properly funded health care benefits, ...

A tentative agreement was reached between the workers of Safeway and the company, according to unions UFCW Local 5 and UFCW Local 648. The agreement occurred just an hour prior to the ...

Union employees have reached a tentative agreement with Safeway, averting a planned strike that would have been the first ...

A strike involving thousands of Safeway workers across the state and here in the Bay Area has been averted, at least for now.

UFCW Local 5, which represents about 25,000 Safeway employees in the Bay Area and Northern California, said that if an agreement isn’t reached by midnight Friday, grocery store workers will walk off ...

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