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 last 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. Lexington's Stop & Shop is located in the shopping center at 36 Bedford Street. While discussions continue, the company is running eight hiring sites from Mansfield to Quincy to Woburn. A Stop & Shop spokeswoman told the Herald that …
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Tom
3:35 am on Monday, February 11, 2013
Burlington Market Basket has come a long way since the days you'd often see managers chatting away while standing in a pile of dirt in the old store. It is hard to justify shopping at Stop and Shop when items I commonly purchase are often 50 cents more expensive at S & S. Late hours are nice, but the seafood and meat counters are stored away and you have to deal with big pallets of shrink wrap … more ›