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 to "prepare so we can continue to serve our customers and remain open."
Are you a Stop & Shop customer? How would a strike affect your grocery shopping there? Let us know in the comments section below.
Nathalie Woodruff
9:45 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Sounds like they're preparing to refuse to negotiate.
Louis San Miguel
10:06 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Lets be realistic. Neither side can afford a strike. Lou San Miguel
paula Salt
10:10 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
Yes I shop at stop & Shop, will go to Shaws untill you straight out your dispute, would never cross a picket line.
franky
2:23 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
You might if you were without employment like myself! Hire me Stop & Shop! There are pro's and cons on both sides of the coin in relation to Unions....greed and bullying tactics hurt us all in the end!
Mark
10:24 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
The same thing happened 3 years ago, Sadly the union doesn't go to bat for the workers at all and threatens a strike every time just to "scare" the company. The UFCW Union is also notorious for flat out lying to its members. The vote to strike last time was nullified by a mediator because it was made based off of false statements made by union officials. And this year they went around saying there was a bill in the Legislature that would end overtime, amazingly enough when asked to produce such a document the union rep failed to.
Niki Grainger
5:07 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Not going to cross a Picket, will go to Roche Bros....
Mack
10:43 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Does going to non-union Roche Bros really show any support for the Stop & Shop union folks?
malcolm nichols
8:14 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Market Basket is the best. We ought to follow their model.
abdul
11:29 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Need more choice in Braintree then this two: shaws and Stop and shop.
sue hobart
1:46 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Shaws is much nicer anyway. Stop and Shop is always manipulating us with gas perks that don't do anything and moving stuff around all the time just to mess up a quick trip. I got over that place a long time ago.
I feel for the workers though because i suspect they have a nasty corporate wall to climb to get what they are after.
Joan Bassett
6:33 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I shop at Market Basket, great prices, customer service. It takes me approximately 30 minutes from my home and so worth the trip. I live less than a five minute ride from stop & shop.