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Teamsters and AFL-CIO members will join Shaw's workers who are picketing stores in hopes of a boycott. After rejecting a contract that would lead to a net decrease in pay for some workers, around 300 employees from a distribution center have been on strike since March 7. Shaw's announced this week that it was looking to hire replacements for the striking workers, something the UFCW, which represents the workers condemened. A spokeman for the union said that the company had jumped to an extreme action, and that it would only galvanize workers. A spokeswoman for Shaw's said that the decision to replace the workers had been a hard one, but that the company had to do it. She declined to comment on the announcement made this week that the comapny would layoff 4% of their sales associates, in hopes of cutting cost. The UFCW and Shaw's have agreed to meet on Monday.