Union president claims Stop & Shop management stormed out of negotiations

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Source: Mass Live

By Jim Kinney

SPRINGFIELD - The contract between Stop & Shop supermarkets and its unionized workers expired this weekend without a new pact in place.

Daniel P. Clifford, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1459 in Springfield, told his members that supermarket management "stormed out" of a negotiating session after rejecting a union pay proposal. But negotiations continue in Rhode Island, Clifford wrote.

Unlike the Boston-area local, Clifford didn't have a strike vote this weekend for Western Massachusetts Stop & Shop workers saying a such a move creates unnecessary fear this early in the process. But he said the union will strike if necessary.

Earlier in February, Stop & Shop advertised for replacement workers. It does so every three years as the contract comes up for renegotiation without ever having to use them, according to Clifford.

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The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is advertising for replacement workers at a pay rate of $16 an hour as negotiations with the union representing the chain's workers continue. (Michael S. Gordon)

Read more: http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2016/02/stop_shop_union_continue_to_bargain_afte.html

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1. Should Hillary tell them to...

cut it out

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2. I went and did our grocery shopping early Sun AM

Hope the union stays firm and get what they want. No one in his house will cross the picket line.