Tell Supervalu to be good Parents! Support Striking Shaw's Grocery Workers

Supervalu, the parent company of New England grocery store chain Shaw's, is behaving badly.  The 310 workers from Shaw's Supermarkets Distribution Center in Methuen, MA, members of UFCW Local 791, have been on strike for almost 7 weeks.  Although Supervalu is the driving force behind negotiations, they refuse to take responsibility and come back to the bargaining table to negotiate in good faith.  They claim that they are not responsible for their subsidiary Shaw's.

Call and write Supervalu today to tell them to be good parents and settle the strike now!

• Call Supervalu CEO Craig Herkert at
  (952) 828-4000 
• Click here to send a fax to Supervalu.

Last month, union workers at Shaw's distribution center voted to go out on strike after the company refused to return to the bargaining table.  Workers rejected a company proposal that would have increased employees' health insurance payments, resulting in a net loss of pay. 

To make matters worse, the company is threatening to permanently replace all striking workers, placing all the workers at the distribution center jobs in peril.  Shaw's followed up its refusal to bargain with an announcement that they were going to lay off 4% of the workers in its local stores. The company announced that, "store associates who are laid off will be offered positions at the Mass. distribution center as permanent replacements for 300 striking workers."  Then the company announced it was ending health benefits for the workers it has refused to bargain with.

The new CEO Supervalu, Craig Herkert is the former president/CEO of Wal-Mart's operations in North and South America.  Supervalu could pay him an annual bonus of more than $2.5 million if the company meets certain "targets" for net earnings.  In January, the company announced quarterly net earnings of $109 million. 

Supervalu is the parent company for grocery stores nationwide, including Albertson’s, Jewel-Osco, Cub Foods, Shopper's food Warehouse, and Acme among others. 

Tell Supervalu to be good parents and settle the strike now!

For more information on the strike visit http://www.justiceatshaws.org/.  Keep up with news about the strike on Facebook.