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STRATFORD, Conn. -- Leaders of Westport, Conn.-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 371, which represents 11,000 grocery and foodservice workers in the state, say they'll ask the Fairfield County Labor Council, an AFL-CIO affiliate, to seek a meeting with new Stratford mayor James Miron to prevent a 118,000-square-foot construction project that would be anchored by a Big Y Supermarket.

BOISE, Idaho -- The proposed deal for a consortium including Supervalu to acquire Albertsons here is in jeopardy as talks stopped last night, according to press reports.