Sainsbury and Shaw’s Move Forward with Corporate Integration, Slashing Regional Distribution Hub
The British company that owns Shaw’s and Star supermarkets announced it will close Star’s Norwood warehouse, a move affecting about 400 workers.
More than 300 of those employees are Teamsters, and Teamster officials said they will fight the move.
They don't want to do business with the Teamsters union. That's quite obvious from these actions,'' said George Cashman, president of Teamsters Local 25. We will employ whatever means necessary, or go down in a fight that will speak volumes to the future needs of workers.”
The decision was made by Shaw’s officials after an analysis concluded that extensive costs would come with integrating the warehouse into other operations when Shaw’s merges with Star Markets.
The company said it had intended to keep the warehouse open to help supply the combined company’s 170 stores.
The warehouse will close the week of Nov. 13, Shaw’s spokesman Bernard Rogan told the Boston Herald.
Shaw’s officials said they planned to meet with Teamsters representatives to discuss what will happen to 336 union shipping and receiving workers.
The warehouse closing is the latest streamlining move made since federal regulators approved the $476 million acquisition bid by J Sainsbury Plc, Shaw’s parent company.
The approval requires Shaw’s to sell three of its own stores and seven Star Markets in Massachusetts.
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