Today hundreds of delegates of the National NAACP Convention  marched from the NAACP Convention to the downtown Ralphs grocery store in support of 62,000 grocery workers in Southern California whose contract has expired and who are trying to maintain healthcare for themselves and their families. The NAACP delegates and leaders were joined by hundreds of grocery workers, community supporters, and elected officials.

“The issue here is that Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons made $5 billion in profits last year, and they are trying to force cashiers, butchers, and baggers to pay 50% of their salary in order to maintain their health care,” said Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

“L.A. labor will join the delegates of the National NAACP Convention to march in the streets of downtown L.A. tomorrow to show our support for grocery workers and their families because if a person works hard in this country, he or she should be able to take a sick child to the doctor,” Durazo said.