Connecticut Postings

Stop & Shop’s five unions can go out on strike any time after 3 p.m. Thursday. 

 The bargain units representing the grocery chain’s 40,000 employees served management just moments ago with formal notification at the Biltmore Hotel in Providence, where negotiations have been underway for days.

The unions’ three-year contract with Stop & Shop expired Feb. 21st.

“We got a proposal from the company, and it’s not acceptable,” Brian Petronella, president of Local 371, which represents 5,000 workers employed in Stop & Shope’s meat, deli and fish departments.  “I hand delived our notice to Mark McGowan, the division president.”

According to the notice, the collective bargaining units reserve their right to strike anytime after 3 p.m. March 4th.  Nevertheless, Petronella says, negotiations will continue.  Petronella says there is no strike has been called yet.  “I’m going to keep negotiating, but any time there be a possible job action after that time and date.”

More updates as the situation unfolds. Stay tuned.

ANSONIA – A man attempting to repossess a vehicle on Reichelt Terrace this morning was shot in the leg, apparently by the car’s owner, according to police.
Officers received a call of shots fired there about 9 a.m., Lt. Andrew Cota said, and found the injured man.
“The owner confronted the man and he was shot one time in the left knee,” Cota said. The man was taken to Griffin Hospital, Derby, with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
It does not appear that the owner mistook the man for someone trying to steal the car, Cota said.
“It appears the guy knew exactly who it was and why he was there,” he said. “They got into an argument over whether the vehicle should be repossessed.”
Police were interviewing two people at headquarters this afternoon, Cota said, and an arrest is likely.
By Kate Ramunni

Two area men, allegedly deserters from the U.S. Marine Corps, have been arrested in Milford.
David Nunziata, of West Clark Street in West Haven, and Ryan Schultz, of Fawn Trail in Fairfield, were arrested by Milford police on a military warrant early Wednesday.
Police said the two 19 year-olds were stopped at the Exit 40, Woodmont Road, northbound ramp on I-95 a few minutes after midnight.
The men are being held pending transport to a military facility, Officer Jeff Nielsen said.
Randall Clinton in the U.S. Marine Corps public affairs office in New York City is researching what information on Nunziata and Shultz is releasable to the public.
More to come.