Contract Settlement Reached at Duane Reade
This entry was posted on 4/11/2006 10:38 AM and is filed under Current Events.
(Orginally submitted by RWDSU Local 338 & UNITE HERE)
After a long and protracted struggle,
a contract agreement has been reached for the 2,600 Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW
employees working at 141 Duane Reade stores in New York City and Long Island, as
well the more than 1,000 employees at 110 stores represented by Local 340A New
York Joint Board UNITE HERE!. Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW and
UNITE HERE! reached a contract with the city’s largest drug store chain,
recognizing the new management team led by Chief Executive Officer Richard
Dreiling for its willingness to reach a settlement with the union and deal with
issues of importance to the members.
<> “We are very pleased to
finally have an agreement for these workers that have been without a contract
for almost five years,” Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW President John R. Durso said. “It’s been an extremely difficult process,
and it’s gratifying that Mr. Dreiling, Duane Reade’s new CEO has demonstrated
the importance of settling this contract.
The unions came together this year to work for a contract, keeping our
members’ interests and needs as our top priority, and now we have an agreement
that protects those interests. We look
forward to continuing to best represent our members at Duane Reade, and to
working to ensure that all retail employees in New York are afforded the same protections and
benefits provided by a union contract that Duane Reade workers now
have.”
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“This is a good example of
Change to Win unions, Local 338 and Local 340A, working together,” said John
Gillis, international vice president/general manager of Local 340A New York
Joint Board UNITE HERE!. “The commitment
of the Company’s new management and the cooperation of the unions were able to
secure a fair contract for the members of the two respective
unions.”
