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The Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004 was a strike by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) against four supermarket chains in Southern California. Management and the unions arrived at a contract after twenty weeks, with both sides claiming victory.
In 25 years, union membership in Southern California’s grocery industry has dropped from 90% to about 35% as nonunion big-box stores expanded into food, he said.
Workers across 540 Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions stores vote to authorize a strike amid impasse in bargaining over wages, safety regulations.
Ralphs Grocery Company has contracts with the United Food and Commercial Workers, the largest grocery union in the United States.In late 2003 and early 2004, Ralphs locked out its workers who were members of the UFCW in sympathy with competitor Vons (owned by Safeway Inc.) in Southern California, after the UFCW had declared a strike against Vons.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers [1] in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and health care.
Grocery workers across Southern California began voting Monday to authorize a strike against supermarket chains to pressure the companies to raise wages.
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Lion Food (Northern California) – Vietnamese-Chinese supermarket; Lotte Plaza – Korean-American supermarket (Maryland, Virginia) Marukai – Japanese American supermarket in CA and HI, also owns Tokyo Central. Mitsuwa (New Jersey, Illinois, California, Hawaii, Texas) – Japanese American supermarket and shopping center
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