Overview

• If no contract is reached by midnight Friday, up to 25,000 Safeway employees will begin striking at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
• Workers are pushing for higher wages, fully funded health care, improved pension benefits and stronger scheduling protections.
• Negotiations under a federal mediator have continued nonstop into Friday night without a comprehensive offer from Safeway.
• A walkout would disrupt operations at more than 100 Safeway stores from Bakersfield to the Oregon–California border.
• The potential strike represents the largest grocery worker walkout in Northern California in nearly 30 years as Safeway advertises temporary hires at over $27 an hour.