Stop & Shop Agrees to New Contract with Workers

Stop & Shop workers have approved a new three-year contract, ensuring that the company will avert a strike, according to Boston.com.

Several local chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union approved the new contract in a vote on Sunday. The contract affects roughly 40,000 workers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

It's been reported that the new deal has increased pay and more affordable health care coverage for part-time workers, and also helps avoid a strike, which Stop & Shop had been preparing for by looking for temporary workers.

There is a Stop & Shop in Natick on Route 9.