Shaw's distribution workers go on strike

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Mar 7, 2010

Shaw's distribution workers go on strike

by Alysha Palumbo

Pickets went up at Shaw's supermarkets in different parts of New England after United Food and Commercial Workers Local 791 voted overwhelmingly, 288 to 8, to strike after rejecting what the company called its final offer.

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Strike Called At Shaw's Fresh Food Warehouse

Shaw's workers take their strike to local stores

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March 4, 2010

Shaw's closing; 1,000 out of work

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - Last month, Shaw's Supermarkets announced that they were shutting down all of their Connecticut stores. Today, we got word that about 1,000 employees will be laid off.

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Coming right on the heels of Stop and Shop's contract. Sad to hear this...

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March 23, 2010

Shaw's says it will replace striking Mass. workers

The Associated Press

METHUEN — The Shaw's supermarkets chain says it has begun the process to hire permanent replacements for hundreds of striking employees at a Massachusetts distribution center.

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March 31, 2010

Greatwide; truck driver arrested on charges of assaulting cop

Strikers say driver made obscene gesture, tried to run them over

By J.J. Huggins

METHUEN — Police arrested a truck driver who allegedly waved his middle finger at strikers at the Shaw's warehouse yesterday and then allegedly assaulted a police officer.

Strikers said the trucker drove erratically near the picket line in front of the Shaw's warehouse on Danton Drive.

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July 8, 2010

Shaw's strike ends

About four months after more than 300 warehouse workers at Shaw's Supermarkets Inc. walked off their jobs, they have reached an agreement with the supermarket chain over pay and health benefits.

Workers at the Shaw's Metheun distribution center have ratified a four-year contract that effectively ends the strike that began March 8, a day after workers rejected a contract that they say would have resulted in the loss of $28 per week, or about $1,456 annually for people on the family health insurance plans.

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