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TEAMSTERS CONDEMN STOP & SHOP’S ATTACK ON WORKERS, VOW ACTION

 

Foreign-Owned Grocery Giant Threatens Jobs, Moves to Gut Health Care

 

 

(BOSTON) – The following is a statement from Tom Erickson, Teamsters Warehouse Division Director, and Thomas G. Mari, President of Teamsters Local 25, regarding Stop & Shop’s blatant union busting and threats to strip workers of their health care.

 

“The Teamsters unequivocally condemn Stop & Shop‘s threats to subcontract work and close the Freetown, Mass., distribution center unless hardworking Teamsters give up their union health care plan.

 

“Ahold Delhaize — the Dutch-Belgian parent company of Stop & Shop — raked in nearly $94 billion in sales last year, but its greedy, morally bankrupt executives are demanding sacrifices from the very workers who made that success possible.

 

“If Stop & Shop continues down this path, threatening the livelihoods of more than 900 Teamsters, we will take action. We will extend picket lines to every Stop & Shop store in New England and bring the full force of our union to this fight.

 

“The Teamsters will never let a foreign-owned corporation bully American workers into accepting substandard health care. Our members will not be intimidated. We will not back down.”

 

Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.3 million hardworking people in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit Teamster.org for more information. Follow us on X @Teamsters and on Facebook at Facebook.com/teamsters.

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