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.
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."
Framingham has to Stop & Shop locations - one on Temple Street and one on Old Conn Path.
Are you a Stop & Shop customer? How would a strike affect your grocery shopping there? Let us know in the comments section below.
julie swids
10:13 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
It won't affect me, I don't shop there anymore, stop and shop is the most expensive overpriced grocery in the area.
Amy Schwartzberg
5:49 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
where do you shop Julie?
Amy Schwartzberg
5:49 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Haven't thought about it. I guess I will see if they go on strike and how the one on Temple Street is managed during the strike.
GwenB
8:28 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Good!!!! Hire away! There are plenty of people who need jobs and would really be grateful. I hope they keep the newly employed permanently.