Pact Stops grocer’s worker woes

Stop & Shop appears to have avoided a potential lockout or strike by 40,000 workers after reaching a tentative contract deal with their union locals.

The agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, reached around 
4 a.m. yesterday, is subject to legal review before ratification meetings are scheduled with union members in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

"Stop & Shop is pleased to have reached tentative agreements with each of the five New England UFCW local unions," said Suzi 
Robinson, spokeswoman for the Quincy-based supermarket chain.

Stop & Shop had set up hiring centers in January to recruit temporary replacement workers in case talks reached an impasse.

"We have not yet had to use the temporary workers," Robinson said. "No union has initiated any work stoppage during (current) negotiations."

Union officials did not return calls for comment.

The workers' contract originally was scheduled to expire at midnight on 
sFeb. 23, but was extended to midnight Sunday as negotiations continued.

Talks apparently got contentious over the weekend, based on an update posted on the union's website just after midnight on Sunday.

"Stress is very high, and emotions are playing a greater role as the exchanges of proposals creates more questions than solutions," union presidents said in the update. "We are quite a bit apart on wages, and we are significantly apart on a multitude of heath-care issues."

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