Workers at a Hannaford distribution center in South Portland have voted overwhelmingly to accept a new contract that gives them an hourly wage increase and maintains their health coverage while reducing the hourly wage paid to new hires.

The workers voted 150-38 to accept the three-year contract, said Jeff Bollen, president of United Food and Commercial Workers 1445 in Dedham, Masschusetts. The union represents 246 employees at the distribution center operated by Delhaize America Distribution, a subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch parent company of Scarborough-based Hannaford Supermarkets.

The vote Wednesday came three weeks after union members went on a one-day strike.

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