Stop & Shop workers OK new contract Unions, company avoid strike as both sides compromise on health care, wages

From: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA | Date: March 12, 2007| Author: RACHEL SLAJDA | Copyright information

QUINCY - Union workers at Stop & Shop approved a new three-year contract calling for employee contributions toward the cost of health insurance for the first time and providing for increases in wages and the companies contribution to worker pensions. The agreement averted a possible strike that could have affected the chain's supermarkets in three states.

The contract for about 43,000 union members expired three weeks ago. The Quincy-based company and union representatives struggled to...

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