Stop & Shop Prepares for Potential Labor Strike, Hires Replacement Workers
The company is holding discussions with labor representatives as the deadline for a three-year contract nears on Feb. 23.
Representatives of the Stop & Shop grocery store chain are looking to hire temporary replacement workers as it prepares for a potential labor strike, according to a report in the Boston Herald Friday. The Quincy-based company is currently holding contract discussions with United Food and Commercial Workers Union locals who represent more than 40,000 Stop & Shop employees in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, according to the Herald. The three-year contract will expire on Saturday, Feb. 23. While discussions continue, the company is running eight hiring sites from Mansfield to Quincy to Woburn. A Stop & Shop spokeswoman told the Herald that the company is advertising replacement workers "in the event of a dispute" in an effort …
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Nicole
11:01 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013
I work for s&s and i personally think our union is useless...they "work" one month every three yrs(when the contracts up and theyre supposedly negotiating)...they didnt even help me out when i went to them about a harassment issue...yet i have to give them 7 dollars a wk! Where's that money going? I can only assume in their pockets...maybe instead of them "fighting" for our raise, they should … more ›