Management at Stop & Shop and five United Food and Commercial Workers union locals have come to a tentative contract agreement, ending an 11 day strike by 31,000 workers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Stop & Shop is New England’s largest grocery chain. Scott MacKay, political analyst for The Public’s Radio, says this strike illustrates how high the stakes are for both sides in an era when retailing is undergoing big changes.
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Stop & Shop Strike Brings More Business To Other Grocers
It’s been a week since 31,000 Stop & Shop employees went on strike in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Most of the store’s regular customers are buying their food elsewhere — either to support the strikers, or to avoid the awkwardness of crossing a picket line.
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Stop & Shop Workers Strike In Three New England States
Workers clustered together at the two entrances to the Stop & Shop store in East Hartford, holding signs in the air and chanting, “Better contract, better lives. Better contract, better lives!”The store’s employees were among unionized workers at Stop & Shop stores across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island who walked off the job Thursday, after […]
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After Weeks With No Contract, Stop & Shop Workers Rally In Mass.
The union representing Stop & Shop workers held a rally Wednesday outside the store in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The workers have been without a contract since late February, and continue to threaten a strike.
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Stop & Shop Union Boss Suggests Strike May Be Inevitable, With Talks Suspended
Relations between Stop & Shop and its New England unions have “gone from bad to worse,” according to a spokeswoman for the workers, and both sides say no further bargaining sessions are scheduled.
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Stop & Shop, Union Representatives Negotiating To Avoid Strike
Workers at local Stop and Shop grocery stores could soon go on strike. The retailer and New England branches of the United Food and Commercial Workers union are negotiating this week for a new contract, almost two weeks after the most recent agreement expired.Workers have said that they’re fighting against four things – no raises […]
