An estimated 400 grocery workers, union representatives and supporters gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday to demand a resolution to their long-running attempt to forge a new labor contract with Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. Some 50,000 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770members voted recently to authorize a strike against [...]
The increasingly crowded supermarket industry in Southern California might make negotiating a new labor contract for some 48,000 affected workers harder than it has been in recent years, analysts told Bloomberg BNA. “It’s been such a topsy-turvy, highly competitive market in San Diego, so for the unions it’s a different [...]
The bold Southern California expansion by tiny grocery Haggen Inc., and the company’s abrupt bankruptcy filing only six months after opening its first store in the region, came as little surprise to Jack Brown. Brown is the longtime chief executive of the 168-store Stater Bros. chain, based in San Bernardino, [...]