Workers at Westport’s Super Stop & Shop awaited word today on whether their union would call a strike against the grocery chain.
Reports said the sides edged closed to an agreement Wednesday on providing ‘‘affordable, quality health insurance’’ for union members.
‘‘We’re not going to get into any specifics, but we are moving in a direction that is positive,’’ said James Riley, secretary-treasurer of Local 328 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
About 5,000 Connecticut workers are represented by Westport-based Local 371 of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union.
The negotiations under way involve five union locals in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut representing about 43,000 workers.
The talks to put the final touches on a new three-year contract, which expired Sunday, have been unusually contentious, and the itch to strike remains strong, Riley said, according to the Cape Cod (Mass.) Times.
