The union representing about 25,000 Safeway workers in northern and central California extended a strike deadline early Saturday, citing “negotiation progress.”
Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers had threatened to go on strike if a new contract agreement wasn’t reached by midnight Friday.
UFCW 8-Golden State, UFCW Local 5, and UFCW Local 648 said they agreed to a temporary extension of the deadline at the request of a federal mediator. The announcement came on social media not long after the midnight deadline had passed…