Members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1445 who work at Stop & Shop are invited to participate in a vote to authorize a strike on Sunday morning in Randolph.

DEDHAM - As their current contract nears its end, members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1445 union will meet Sunday with members who work at Stop & Shop to vote for a strike authorization.

UFCW Local 1445 and four other UFCW Locals representing more than 30,000 Stop & Shop workers in New England said they have been negotiating a new contract with Stop & Shop representatives over the past several weeks, with the current one set to expire at midnight Saturday.

A strike authorization vote will allow the union to call for a strike for nearly 10,000 of its Stop & Shop members at any time.

Sunday's meeting takes place at 9 a.m. at Lombardo’s, 6 Billings St., Randolph.

Union officials said members of the press will be allowed to film outside the meeting room and interview Local 1445 President Jeff Bollen after the vote.

Union officials said that to date, all of Stop & Shop’s proposals have only cut workers’ benefits, despite its parent company, Ahold Delhaize, netting $74 billion in sales last year and authorizing over $1 billion in stock buybacks for its shareholders.

Stop & Shop operates two stores in Framingham, and one each in Natick, Wayland, Hudson, Westborough, Milford and Franklin. The Quincy-based chain, which has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dutch-based Ahold (now Ahold Delhaize) since 1985, operates more than 400 stores overall in New England, New York and New Jersey.