Stop & Shop Strife Over: Union Votes To Accept New Contract Offer. From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) | Date: March 12, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Hartford Courant. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Janice Podsada

Mar. 12--Workers voted Sunday to accept Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.'s new three-year contract proposal after union officials recommended its approval, ending weeks of negotiations and the threat of a strike by 43,000 employees. All five locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union in New England ratified the contract Sunday at union meetings held in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. "After many months of difficult negotiati...