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 theBoston 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 to…
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Sherri Smith
11:12 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Temporary workers? Wait, let me get this straight. They are going to hire temps to save the positions for those who chose to strike? Only in unionized America...You snooze, you lose. Oh Jimmy Hoffa, how I do hope you are burning! more ›