To the DU'er on the CA supermarket strike (don't rememer name, sorry)

[impeach the gop]

US shoppers join counter revolution !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Benefits battle could be one of most critical strikes in
American labour history

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Saturday November 29, 2003
The Guardian

Normally, during Thanksgiving week, Vons supermarket in Santa
Monica would be packed with shoppers waiting in long lines at
the checkout counters. This week, however, the only lines are
the picket lines outside the store as one of the largest and what
is described as one of the most critical strikes in modern
American labour history enters its eighth week.

More than 70,000 workers at 859 locations across central and
southern California have been on strike in protest against plans
by supermarket chains to cut their health and pension benefits.
This week, the strike, called by the United Food and
Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, intensified as Teamsters
union drivers refused to cross picket lines at depots. The strike's
most significant backers, however, are the shoppers who are
also refusing to cross picket lines, reducing turnover in some
stores to a third of the normal volume.

The stakes are high. Victory for the strikers would accelerate
attempts to unionise other big service companies, say union
organisers; defeat could have a chilling effect on recruitment.
Union leaders say the strike could be the first round in a fight in
which major companies seek to reduce traditional benefits
because they claim they are being undercut by vast non-union
firms, such as Wal-Mart.

The strike started after talks broke down over the employers'
intention to cut health and pension benefits by stopping paying
their employees' insurance premium. First the staff at Vons and
Pavilions, two chains owned by Safeway Inc, walked out. The
following day, two other chains, Ralphs and Albertsons, which
are owned by Kroger, which bargains jointly with Safeway,
locked out their staff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1095813,00.html

Anything AFGE Local 3320 in Cowtown TX can do to help out, you let me know. I know HUD, (that's Duh backwards) is on the Greed Crusade's hit list. So we're still praying and willing to help you guys against our common enemy.
Best to you and your brothers and sister, and the good hearted truckers, and even the shoppers

We need to shut Walmart down collectively WORLD WIDE, not just nation or local, we need them, since they are the greedy masser's of us soon to be slaves.

Picketing walmart by ALL unions would at least give them more bad press. and maybe shoppers will understand this is costing them jobs and benefits too. Low price in walmart, cost more than money can buy. You don't save anything in the big picture of the walmartization of the masses.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. It was Ernesto

[wryter2000]

2. I know

I know that if it spreads up here, we're not crossing lines. (Safeway is the Von's in NoCal). I've told the dh. We will get our groceries elsewhere. If the people at Albertson's go out in sympathy, we'll be at Costco every week.

This is war!

[DBoon]

3. UFCW local 770 is accepting donations

See :

http://www.ufcw770.org/strikepage.htm

for overall support and

http://www.ufcw770.org/donate.htm

to make a convenient donation via credit card