The United Food and Commercial Workers on Sunday announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a new contract for the 31,000 Stop & Shop workers who walked off their jobs on April 11.
The agreement preserves health care and retirement benefits, provides wage increases, and maintains time-and-a-half pay on Sunday for current members. “Today is a powerful victory for the 31,000 hardworking men and women of Stop & Shop who courageously stood up to fight for what all New Englanders want,” said the union, “good jobs, affordable health care, a better wage, and to be treated right by the company they made a success.” They added that “We are incredibly grateful to our customers and everyone who proudly stood together with us every day for a contract that invests in the communities we serve, and makes Stop & Shop a better place to work and a better place to shop." On this week’s labor calendar, join the Washington Teachers’ Union, parents, students, and others who care about funding, improving and saving our DC public schools this Thursday, April 25th, 4PM at Freedom Plaza to tell the DC mayor and city Council to “fully fund our public schools.” For all the latest local labor event listings, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1956, the Canadian Labour Congress was founded through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour, the two major union congresses in Canada at the time. The CLC represents the interests of more than three million affiliated workers. Today’s labor quote is by Ida Mae Stull, the country’s first woman coal miner, who died on this date in 1980. Ida Mae Stull, who said: “I can load five tons a day with pick and shovel and that’s as much as any man in the mines can do.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. If you’re looking for ways to cut costs on medical expenses, check out the Union Plus Health Savings Program. Learn how you can save on vision, dental and prescription out-of-pocket expenses at unionplus.org/healthsavings.
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