More than 50,000 Stop & Shop grocery workers who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic will receive retroactive premium pay.
Under the terms of an agreement reached by the Quincy-based grocery store chain and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, 56,000 unionized workers will receive retroactive premium pay – in the form of lump sum payments equal to 10 percent of all hours worked between July 5 and Aug. 22 .
UFCW International President Marc Perrone and Stop & Shop President Gordon Reid released a joint statement on Friday thanking the employees for continuing to provide neighborhood services even during the height of the pandemic.
“Working in partnership when the pandemic began to take hold, UFCW International and UFCW local unions together with Stop & Shop offered union members a temporary premium. When that pay raise expired in July, the UFCW local unions and members asked Stop & Shop to do what is right for grocery workers and UFCW members,” the statement read. “Today’s agreement is a further testament that by negotiating in good faith, Stop & Shop and UFCW have been able to achieve a real victory that is shared by the company, its customers, these communities, and the grocery workers who continue to serve."
This agreement is in addition to the initial Stop & Shop premium pay between March and July, as well as the two additional weeks of paid leave provided earlier this year if any workers become sick.
Additionally, Stop & Shop has agreed to observe a moment of silence on Labor Day and Workers Memorial Day, starting in 2021, to recognize both the frontline workers lost to COVID-19 and the collective strength that union membership has provided to its associates.
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