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The regular grocery chains are getting killed by WalMart, Target, Costco, and the like. These strikers are hurrying the process along and killing the source of their own livelihoods in the process. This is especially stupid because grocery jobs have always been pretty well-paying jobs for people without education and skills. But then, I guess you expect people without education and skills to do stupid things.

My wife works at Safeway and she really pisses off the union idiots bacause she can actually use logic. These idiots are whining about paying 3% insurance premium costs.
Remember when the Teamsters went on strike at the Safeway warehouse in Tracy? They got their ass kicked. After months of being on strike, the drivers came crying back to the table to find a worse contract than what was offered in the first place.
This is what will happen here. The only tough part about hiring replacement workers was that each chain had their own produce codes. That is not the case anymore. All codes are uniform in the U.S. and most produce is labeled with the codes. I was in management at Safeway the last strike and it didn't take much to train a replacement worker. The stores will bust the union this time.