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About 100 workers at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store have asked to join the United Food and Commercial Workers. Yesterday they presented a letter to the store’s management. The non-grocery workers would join grocery, and meat & seafood employees in the store, who are already represented by the same union.

Fred Meyer stores in Fairbanks are negotiating a contract with the United Food and Commercial Worker's Union. But the parties have reached an impasse and the union has asked for a third-party negotiator to break the stalemate.