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Monday, February 4, 2013

Stop & Shop Prepares for Potential Labor Strike, Hires Replacement Workers

The company is holding discussions with labor representatives as the deadline for a three-year contract nears on Feb. 23.

Representatives of the Stop & Shop grocery store chain are looking to hire temporary replacement workers as it prepares for a potential labor strike, according to a report in the Boston Herald Friday.  The Quincy-based company is currently holding contract discussions with United Food and Commercial Workers Union locals who represent more than 40,000 Stop & Shop employees in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, according to the Herald. The three-year contract will expire on Saturday, Feb. 23.  While discussions continue, the company is running eight hiring sites from Mansfield to Quincy to Woburn. A Stop & Shop spokeswoman told the Herald that the company is advertising replacement workers "in the event of a dispute" in an effort …

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franky

2:23 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013

You might if you were without employment like myself! Hire me Stop & Shop! There are pro's and cons on both sides of the coin in relation to Unions....greed and bullying tactics hurt us all in the end!   more ›

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

POLL: How are the SOPA/PIPA 'Black Out' Protests Affecting You?

Today Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and a smattering of web properties are "going black" and restricting access to protest the SOPA/PIPA bills on the congress' agenda.

Today is the largest online protest ever. It is the SOPA Strike. This morning the "Washington Post" reported on several major websites participating in today's "black out" protest of SOPA and PIPA, including Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Wordpress, Flickr, Twitpic, etc. Not sure what all the protesting is about?  SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. Freebase describes the bill as: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted …

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