Stop & Shop's employee union is threatening to strike at all of the company's New England stores if it doesn't stop pushing employees at a distribution center in Massachusetts to accept what it considers a substandard health care plan.
Leaders from Teamsters Local 25 said in a statement that Stop & Shop was engaging in "blatant union busting" and threatening to strip workers of their health care.
"The Teamsters unequivocally condemn Stop & Shop's threats to subcontract work and close the Freetown, Mass., distribution center unless hardworking Teamsters give up their union health care plan," the statement said. "Ahold Delhaize — the Dutch-Belgian parent company of Stop & Shop — raked in nearly $94 billion in sales last year, but its greedy, morally bankrupt executives are demanding sacrifices from the very workers who made that success possible."
Stop & Shop has 83 stores in Connecticut.
Source: ctinsider.com
