Stop & Shop workers' union votes to authorize strike

RANDOLPH, mbad. – A union representing thousands of Stop & Shop workers in Mbadachusetts voted to authorize a strike.

The vote of UFCW Local 1445 on Sunday allows the union to call a strike if the contractual dispute with the supermarket chain continues. The union is asking members to continue working while negotiations continue.

The fight is about health insurance, pensions and vacations. The union states that Stop & Shop seeks to "degrade the quality of life" of workers.

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Stop & Shop said it has proposed solutions that "would ensure that full-time badociates continue to be among the highest paid food retailers in the region."

Five locals of the United Food & Commercial Workers union have been negotiating with Stop & Shop for more than a month. Local 1445 is the first to vote on a strike.

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