Update:
UFCW members in Southern California voted 86 percent to ratify a new agreement affecting 70,000 grocery workers at almost 900 stores, with three supermarket companies, Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons, on February 26, 2004...more
California Strike - In the News (a few recent clips)
East Bay Times- Feb. 2--Safeway woes continue to mount
Los Angeles Times - Jan. 31--State Files Antitrust Suit Against Supermarket Chains
San Francisco Gate - Jan. 30--Supermarket strike raises pressure on Safeway CEO
Reuters - Jan. 27--California controller urges Safeway to end strike
LA Daily News - Jan. 27--Strike Acquires Religious Tones
Los Angeles Times - Jan. 26--Safeway Rewards 11 Top Execs
LA Daily News - Jan. 20--Dock workers contribute $155,000
San Jose Mercury News - Jan. 16--Safeway's King Day ad draws ire from SoCal labor leaders
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 23--Grocers, Lockyer in Late Talks Over Mutual-Aid Probe
North County Times - Dec. 21--Supermarkets reject union health cost offer
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - Dec. 20-- Images From Rally At Castro Safeway
People's Weekly World - Dec. 18-- Workers Hold the Line for Health Care
Desert Sun - Dec. 15--Grocery workers are taking a stand for America's labor force
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec. 8 -- Safeway 'Offers' to End Affordable Health Care
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 4--Grocery Strike Animates Unions
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 4--Gephardt Joins Pickets in Show of Worker Support
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 2--Grocers' Profit Sharing Probed
Jim Hightower Radio - Nov. 25-- Safeway Tries the Greed Way
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 25--Teamsters Halt Food Deliveries to Markets
NBC 4 - Nov. 24--Teamsters To Stop Work At Grocery Distribution Centers
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 22--In Search of Thanksgiving Fare
Business Week Online - Nov. 13--Health Care Is Making Labor Sick; The fight between California grocers and unions may be local, but the issue of shifting more coverage costs onto workers is national
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 3--Ralphs Sees Crush of Customers
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 2--Labor Pains Complicate Albertsons' Prognosis
Ventura County Star - Nov. 2--Understand workers' struggle
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 1--In Tactical Move, Union Pulls Pickets From Ralphs
Los Angeles Times - Nov. 1--The Health of All Is at Stake in the Grocery Strike
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 27-- Corner Grocers May Have to Be What Wal-Mart Isn't
San Diego Union-Tribune - Oct. 26--Grocery strike, spiraling health costs are very close to home
The Nation - Oct. 23-- A Watershed Strike
San Diego Union-Tribune - Oct. 23--Union Defends Stance
Los Angeles Times -Oct. 23--Safeway's Merger Loss Eclipses Labor Woes
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 23--Clash Focuses on Co-pays, Premiums--and Risk
San Diego Union-Tribune - Oct. 20--Life on the Front Lines
Los Angeles Times - Up-to-date info.
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 17-- Cost of Insurance Lost in Health Debate
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 17-- Feels Like a People's War is Brewing (Al Martinez)
Christian Science Monitor - Oct. 17-- More Workers Strike over Healthcare Benefits
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 16-- Allies Rally Behind Grocery Union
AP - Oct. 15-- Labor Unrest in Southern Calif. Widens
Los Angeles Times - Oct. 15--Grocers' Costs Stack Up
The Axcess.net - Oct. 13-- Safeway CEO sells $21.4 million in shares before union strike
CBS Evening News - Oct. 10--Calif. Grocer Clerks May Walk
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