AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - 4/11/2019
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019 UPDATE ON STOP & SHOP CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS IN NEW ENGLAND   President Niccollai reported today, Thursday, April 11th, 2019, that negotiations broke off between the five New England Local Unions and the Stop & Shop Company. Presently, a strike exists in New England involving 31,000 of our Brothers and Sisters employed in over 250 Stop & Shop Supermarkets. Based upon our contract language with the Stop & Shop Company, no member can be terminated or disciplined if they refuse to cross...
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - 4/8/2019
A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI TO ALL STOP & SHOP MEMBERS APRIL 8, 2019   Dear Stop & Shop Brothers and Sisters: UFCW Local 464A has been carefully monitoring the contract negotiations between the five Local Unions in New England representing Stop & Shop workers and the Company.  The contract has expired, with all Local Unions having been granted strike status from our International.  Another negotiating session has been scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9th.  Unless progress is made at tomorrow’s meeting, we project there is a good...
AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT JOHN T. NICCOLLAI - 8/13/2018
PRESIDENT NICCOLLAI REPORTS ON UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR STRIKING WORKERS UFCW President John T. Niccollai extends his deepest thanks to Governor Murphy for signing A-3861.  The Bill will provide unemployment benefits to workers immediately or within 30 days, dependent upon whether the work stoppage is a strike, lockout or non-compliance with the legislation by the Employer.  This legislation is monumental in its importance to hardworking Union members in the State of New Jersey because it will prevent an Employer from economically forcing workers to end a strike because they have...
Seafood Gap:
          The Wall Street Journal released a journal report entitled “Future of Food”, which featured an interview with T.J. Tate and Amy Novogratz about “The Large Seafood Gap”. Ms. Tate, director of sustainable-seafood program at the National Aquarium, explained that consumers are unaware how rapidly the need for seafood is increasing due to the population. “When you’re talking about unsustainable seafood, it’s also the fact that we just don’t have enough…we’re predicted to need to triple the amount of aquaculture were producing by the end of the...