	safeway agrees to severance for dallas workers the united food and commercial workers union said unlisted safeway inc has agreed to provide severance pay to about workers in the dallas area resulting from the closure of a division last april the union said the total severance payment will be about five mln dlrs it said the division was closed as a result of billion dlrs in debt incurred from a leveraged buyout last year the union said it filed suit following the leveraged buyout to protect the claims of union members the leveraged buyout was implemented to ward off a bid by dart group corp darta o reuter 
