Unionised workers at Kroger’s Indiana supermarkets have voted to reject a new five-year contract offer because of health care issues.
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Kroger wants to cap the amount it contributes toward workers’ health care premiums to save money and enable it to better compete with US retail giant Wal-Mart, reported Dow Jones International News.
Similar Kroger contract disputes have led to strikes in California, Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio.
Although a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers union said it was too early to talk about a possible strike in Indiana, Kroger placed an advertisement in the local press seeking temporary workers.
The Indiana workers’ current contract expires on 1 November.
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