Warren, Biden Side With Workers in Massive Grocery Strike
- Grocer wants future employees to bear brunt of cost cuts
- New England stores are unusually empty in week before Easter
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Some 31,000 Stop & Shop workers are headed into their second week on the picket line, buoyed by national attention and, on Thursday, a planned visit from Joe Biden. But the people with the most at stake may be the ones who don’t even work for the grocery chain yet.
In part, the workers are fighting to protect their own pay and benefits from the cost-cutting demands of Dutch-Belgian parent Ahold Delhaize. They’re also resisting the company’s proposal to establish less generous terms for tomorrow’s workers, saying they’ll hold out to defend future employees’ compensation.