Costco workers at 27 Southern California stores ready to strike as deadline looms

Source: OC Register

Thousands of Costco workers are preparing to strike with a midnight deadline drawing closer Friday while the workers’ union and the company continued to negotiate.

The Teamsters union represents 18,000 Costco workers in six states: California, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York.

It’s unclear if the strikes would close stores. Costco has 219,000 U.S. employees and 617 U.S. stores. The company said its labor agreement with the Teamsters applies to less than 10% of those stores.

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