Kroger Closes Two California Stores Due to Salary Increase Rules

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Kroger Closes Two California Stores Due to Salary Increase Rules. It recently emerged that MSN is referring to Kroger Co. He plans to close two supermarkets that opened in Southern California. It was chosen by him because of local regulations requiring shops selling groceries to be required to raise the salaries of their frontline workers. Currently, the requested salary raised is $4. There are two possibilities that will be closed namely Ralphs Store and Food 4 Less store in Long Beach, California. According to information obtained today, He will close both stores on April 17, the statement said by the company itself on Monday. When questioned, a spokesman declined and continued to silence. He did not provide any additional information regarding the decision. So far, it is not known exactly how many employees will lose their jobs.

Some of these areas include Seattle, Santa Monica, and California. The majority of them passed similar mandates that occurred last January. They are demanding large wholesale chains to raise their salaries during the pandemic not yet over. Specifically, in the Long Beach area, regulations demand and require as a condition of a major "salary for hero" increase that reaches the figure of $4 an hour. This rule applies to all workers in the chain who currently employ more than 300 workers nationwide. Not only international workers but local workers consisting of at least 15 workers must also follow the rules.

What do you need to pay attention to? The company criticized the city for not raising the salaries of its own frontline workers, not only that, but they also said that both stores had fought hard. I also found the news that Long Beach interferes with the traditional bargaining process. What do you think of all this?

Here are the words that came out of Kroger's mouth through MSN.com

The irreparable damage that will befall employees and local residents as a direct result of the Long Beach city's efforts to pick winners and losers is unfortunate

In a public response, the local union representing the 22,000 members said in a statement that Kroger's move was "one of attack and as a form of open retaliation" that he aimed at important wholesale workers.

"Kroger's choice to close these stores is one of the very clear efforts that becomes the goal of intimidating and preventing workers from standing up and using their voices to create better working conditions and wages," Andrea Zinder, president of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 324, said.

Amid a recent wave of pay raise mandates by cities and counties, the National Traders Association, a trade group representing more than 1,500 retail and wholesalers, said in an email that the organization continues to advocate for "awards" at the federal level for frontline workers.