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Jun. 18, 2011

Lessons Lost: Did We Learn From the First 'Great’ SoCal Grocery Strike?

Even after the punishing consequences of the 2003-2004 strike, 90 percent of the workers say yes to another strike. By Ruben J. Garcia of California Western School of Law


As union and management representatives at the three largest Southern California grocery chains negotiate to avoid another major strike or lockout in the region, we can only hope that the painful lessons of the first "great" Southern California grocery strike were not lost on both sides. Consumers will be met with tough choices. Their shopping habits may be affected when faced with grocery workers on picket lines asking them not to shop at the three major chains,...

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