Shaw’s Grocery Warehouse Hires Strike-Breakers As Labor Mobilizes Support For Strikers

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on March 25, 2010 - 4:49pm
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Shaw’s grocery stores moves forward with plans to lay off workers and hire strike-breaking replacement workers. Jesse Russell reports:

Striking workers at a Shaw’s grocery stores warehouse in Massachusetts are receiving some support today. Jobs with Justice has been organizing workers of other unions to head out across the state to help get the word out regarding the situation of the 300 warehouse workers. As reported yesterday on Workers Independent News, the company has announced plans that it will be moving forward with hiring permanent replacement workers. On top of the plan to hire those replacement workers at the distribution center the company announced Wednesday that it would begin laying off four percent of its workforce in the states of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont. The lay offs will impact workers in various departments. The company said workers in Rhode Island will not be impacted by this round of job cuts. Shaw’s is in the process of selling or closing all 18 of its Connecticut locations.