[BurbankKarl]

why on earth would they do that? the pickets arent being honored here in LA, and most of their membership is looking for lower paying jobs...

[Smogger]

why on earth would they do that? the pickets arent being honored here in LA, and most of their membership is looking for lower paying jobs...

The pickets are being honored out here in Ontario (suburbia), out here there are already plenty of alternatives to Albertsons, Vons, and Ralphs. Combined with the teamsters sympathy strikes at distribution warehoueses and there is NO POINT in crossing the picket lines. The stores are largely empty of merchandise anyhow, and their bakeries, pharmacies, delli's are all closed (which is the main reason to go to a store like Alebertson's anyhow).

A pox on both their houses.

[BunnySlippers]

In the LA I live in ... Brentwood and Hollywood, the picket lines are largely being honored. My local Gelson's has gotten a lot of the run-over business.

I routinely cross the lines at Von's and Ralph's (no lines) but the shelves are very sparse. And the crowds at Von's and Ralph's are small.

[CdMGuy]

Their membership, the ones who work at Safeway, should be asking their union leaders why they are organizing a boycott? Even if partially successful, less business means less need for workers, and union employees in Safeway stores would face a lay-off.

I live in So. Cal. The union has screwed their members royally. The strike is now in its third month with no end in sight. These workers will never get back the wages they lost. Once the strike is over, you can count on the supers announcing that quite a few of their stores will be closing. There is an over supply of supermarkets in So Cal. The marginal ones will be closed and the union members will be on the street.

Wal Mart is just now entering the metropolitan areas of CA with their Super Wal Mart stores. In another 2 years, the supers will be decimated unless they get their labor costs under control now.