Meatcutters Strike Supermarket Chains by RAY GERMANN Representatives of Local Super- Food Stock Clerks
Cancer clinic for children is dedicated, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN P^M The tennis circuit Big guns fire LONG BRANCH A McEnroe wins Volvo; U.S. warships pound •"t'^P Navratilova beaten. Druse in Lebanon. Today's Forecast: Pa es B2 3 Cloudy, chance of snow al%; 1 9 " Page A2 Complete weather on A2 hwtA The Daily Reg* VOL. 106 NO. 165 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1984 . 25 CENTS Meatcutters strike supermarket chains BY RAY GERMANN representatives of local super- food stock clerks. butchers and fish and poultry markets, but possible long-term John Niccollai, union president, workers, $470; meat wrapper and Members of local 464-A of the effects of the walkout are uncertian. said he recommended that his delicatessen appetizer workers. United Food and Commercial The striking workers are em- members reject the contract offer, $360; and part-time clerks, from $6 Workers Union, representing ployed in meat, seafood and ap- which was made after a six-hour to $7 an hour. butchers and meat cutters, when on petizer departments. Walter Davis, mediating session that ended early Union members picketed near the strike yesterday after rejecting the a union spokesman, said the Team- yesterday. entrances of several area super- latest contract offer of the Food- sters union, which represents driv- "They offered a meager wage markets, including Shop-Rite in Red town, Pathmark, Shop-Rite ^ and ers making deliveries to the super- increase, 3 percent a year over three Bank, and the new Pathmark on Grand Union supermarket chains. markets, has said its members will years," Niccollai said "They still Route 35 in Middlelown.
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