New England Stop & Shop strike enters ninth day, as stores sit empty and unstocked.
Striking workers stand on a picket line outside the Stop & Shop supermarket in Revere, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Paul Tritto has worked at Stop & Shop for 18 years. On April 11, he walked off his job with more than 30,000 of his colleagues at more than 240 of the chain’s stores in New England.
Tritto, who works at the company’s store in Somerville, Massachusetts, said that under the proposed changes to his health care plan, his out-of-pocket maximums will go up, making the cost “astronomical.” Knuti said 75 percent of workers at Stop & Shop are part time, working multiple jobs and barely “cobbling together” a living wage.While Stop & Shop is proposing slight hourly wage increases , changes to out-of-pocket maximums and increases in premiums make the raise negligible, workers say.
Striking workers stand on a picket line outside the Stop & Shop supermarket in Revere, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2019.But striking workers aren’t buying what the grocery chain is selling. In addition to changes to health care and retirement plans, they’re also concerned about pay for Sundays and holidays.
The strike, with no clear end in sight, has garnered widespread support from Democratic presidential hopefuls to loyal shoppers of the brand.
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