Stop & Shop Union Contracts Being Negotiated as Strikes Loom

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NBC Connecticut

By Gabriella Iannetta

Stop & Shop continues to negotiate with five local unions representing cashiers and other personnel as current contracts come to an end this February as threats of a strike loom.

Five locals with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 919, which represents 35,000, are in talks with Koninkliije Ahold the parent company of Stop & Shop.

The talks include concerns over health care premiums and wage increases.

According to a notice put out by the union, if new contracts are rejected, employees will strike as early as Sunday.

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[Sherman A1]

1. I hope that a strike is averted however

I am in greater hopes that the workers get a decent contract which they can live with for the next few years.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Well, my local S&S had fliers out hiring for the princely...

sums of $9-9.50 per hour. If that's what the union gets you, fuck 'em.

[wolfie001]

4. You mean fuck the company!

Right? Fixed it for you. You're welcome!

[wolfie001]

3. Good Luck To These Union Brothers And Sisters!!!

Fight the good fight!!!

[mtasselin]

5. unfortunately

Unfortunately there will be many people that will cross any picket line and one of the only recourse they will have is to take the fight to the consumer. I am thinking that this is a foreign company and maybe take the fight to the share holders. Good Luck!

[RoccoR5955]

6. Interesting

because the parent company Koninklije Ahold N.V., is also the owner of Albert Heijn, Etos, Gall & Gall, and Bol in the Netherlands, and they have plenty of unions today. As a matter of fact, 99% of their employees in the Netherlands, and about two thirds of their employees in the US are union.

Alberh Heijn is the largest grocery chain in the country. The stores are nice, prices are good, and the people seem okay, from what limited encounters I have had with them there. Here's their website, in case you are curious: http://www.ah.nl/


I do know that they had some trouble with their distribution centers in Europe a while back, but that has been settled. I would imagine that they are holding out until the last minute to settle. I think that this is kind of a Dutch thing.

The unions in Holland are better organized than they are here, so perhaps that is also a reason why they come to agreement sooner in Europe.

I even found a link from Ahold, touting their good relations with unions here: https://www.ahold.com/Media/Union-relations-at-Aholds-Dutch-companies.htm#!/Media/Union-relations-at-Ahold-USA-companies.htm

[silvershadow]

7. 285 views, only 6 replies and 4 rec's. My how far we have fallen as a party if we can't

even get behind labor. This place must be infested with the Third Way or establishment types or something. So sad. Thanks, Steve, for the post.

[RoccoR5955]

8. I hear what you are saying

Even a lot of folks on the Left these days, do not support unions. It certainly is pitiful.

[olddots]

9. we are so used to labor getting screwed that we have become numb

this sickens me to watch this country become a fuedal state .