(San Francisco)—Seventy-thousand members of seven United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local unions on strike against Safeway/Vons in Southern California—and locked out by Albertsons and Kroger/Ralphs—will extend picket lines today to Northern California Safeway/Vons stores. The striking supermarket workers will ask customers not to shop Safeway/Vons until the giant supermarket ends its demands for the elimination of health care benefits at work.
WHO: Striking supermarket workers from Southern CaliforniaWhat: Extend picket lines to Northern California Safeway/Vons storesWhen: Noon, November 11, 2003Where: Safeway/Vons, 2020 Market Street—Corner of Market and Church—San Francisco, California
