In response to Stop & Shop’s parent company Ahold Delhaize threatening to close the grocery chain’s Freetown warehouse and distribution center on Feb. 28 if workers don't agree to cut their health care benefits, Teamsters Local 25 is planning two picketing events, saying hundreds of unionized workers could lose their jobs. 

Already, five United Food & Commercial Workers unions have now pledged support if there's a strike, with Teamsters calling for boycott of Stop & Shop grocery stores until Ahold Delhaize returns “to the bargaining table,” a release shared with The Herald News read. 

Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos shared a statement in solidarity with the Teamsters union on Thursday afternoon, saying, “The workers who do the actual labor of feeding our communities deserve their fair share of the enormous profits reaped by international chains.” It encourages Ahold Delhaize to locate “an amicable solution” that “protects workers' health care.”

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