The battle between Stop & Shop and union workers is heating up. Now, politicians in New England are weighing in on the labor fight. “As the state treasurers of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut,

Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island treasurers urge Stop & Shop to negotiate with Teamsters Local 25 to avoid potential picketing.

State treasurers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island say they are seriously concerned about the negotiations happening between Stop & Shop and its workers.

After Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor weighed in Thursday evening in favor of the union protesting Stop & Shop’s plans to close a Freetown facility, the grocery chain is now giving a deadline for the end of the month for a contract agreement.

Teamsters Local 25 and Stop & Shop reached the tentative six-year agreement, which covers the grocery chain's distribution center workers in Freetown, Mass.

Teamsters Local 25 and Stop & Shop have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract Friday, officials said in a release.

The proposed six-year contract will keep the Freetown facility open, saving the jobs of 900 employees at the distribution center.

If ratified, the deal preserves 900 union warehouse jobs in Freetown Teamsters Local 25 and Stop & Shop have reached tentative agreement on a six-year contract for more than 900 warehouse workers ...

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