February 5, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Larry M Edwards appeared at SanDiego.com on February 4.) SAN DIEGO — Hopes for ending the nearly four-month-old grocery strike and lockout were dashed today when the supermarket operators rejected an offer from the workers’ union to...
February 2, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on February 2.) WASHINGTON — With manufacturing job loss taking hold as a national crisis, over 3,000 union members will gather in Washington, D.C., on February 3 in a massive mobilization on Capitol Hill. The...
January 30, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on January 29.) LONG BEACH, Calif. — Fifteen people were arrested Wednesday at a rally for grocery workers participating in a 4-month-old picket against three Southern California supermarket chains. The rally,...
January 30, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO circulated the following on January 29.) Dear Working Families e-Activist: On Tuesday we sent you a note asking you to support more than 70,000 striking and locked-out grocery workers with your shopping choice. We’re e-mailing today to let you know...
January 29, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on January 29.) LOS ANGELES — In the largest action of the Southern California grocery strike and lock out, on Saturday, January 31, 2004 at noon, national labor, community, and religious leaders will join more than...
January 27, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The Working Families e-Activist Network issued the following Action Alert on January 26.) Dear Working Families e-Activist: Since mid-October, 70,000 grocery workers have courageously kept up the picket lines in Southern California. These brave workers are holding...
January 27, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following story by Nicholas Grudin appeared on the Long Beach Press Telegram website on January 27.) LONG BEACH, Calif. — A host of priests, rabbis, pastors and bishops will join union leaders and striking grocery clerks today on a “justice...
January 23, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The following article appeared on the Washington Post website on January 23.) WASHINGTON — The Labor Department must wait until July — six months later than it planned — to impose new rules that require unions to provide more extensive reporting on...
January 22, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following on January 21.) The President must be experiencing a different America than the one in which most working families live. In his State of the Union address last night, he offered no solutions to the urgent, immediate job crisis that...
January 21, 2004 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO issued the following news release on January 20.) WASHINGTON — Union leaders and the AFL-CIO announced today that the labor movement will extend nationwide its efforts to hold the line for affordable healthcare in its fight with grocery chains in...
