Acme supermarket cashiers and clerks said they will strike Friday night if negotiators fail to come to an agreement on health-care benefits, a report in the Times of Trenton said.

The West Berlin-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1360 represents 2,400 employees at 30 stores in Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and Salem counties in New Jersey and in lower Bucks County, Pa, according to the report. Acme rejected the union’s proposal to use a health plan that an Acme union in Pennsylvania joined earlier this year, instead proposing to reduce benefits, the report said.

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