Last grocery strike's effects still felt (4 & 1/2 month strike_contract expires midnight tomorrow)

[Omaha Steve]

ALL Albertsons stores in Omaha closed less than a year after the California strike. They blamed not being able to compete with non-union WalMart as the reason!!! My wife and I still miss Albertsons. We were Albertsons blue.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070304-9999-1n4effects.html

Fallout nags workers, consumers, companies
By Jennifer Davies and Keith Darcé
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS

March 4, 2007

For Celeste Cook, the Southern California grocery strike of three years ago was so traumatic that she and her husband eventually left the industry and the state, moving to Arizona.

Cook's voice quivers as she remembers the stress the 4½-month strike and lockout had on her marriage, her friendships and her children. The former wall deli manager blames it for the divorce of her brother, also a grocery worker.


K.C. ALFRED / Union-Tribune
Vons workers picketed a Sabre Springs store a day after the 41/2-month labor dispute began Oct. 11, 2003.

Cook, 43, said she was so angry at Ralphs, where both she and her husband had worked for a combined total of 43 years, that she refused to shop there after the strike. Even though she and her husband returned to work at Ralphs for about a year, he made sure to pack his lunch when he went back to work.

“My husband wouldn't spend a dime at that store,” she said.

FULL story at link.

[brentspeak]

1. Mall-Wart is a plague on this entire nation

[bemildred]

2. I haven't been to Von's or Safeway since that strike started.

Won't go back either. I never have shopped at WalMart.