[mgj-discuss] PICKET SAFEWAY SATURDAY IN DC!

[Martin Thomas]

PICKET SAFEWAY SATURDAY IN DC! 
70,000 Supermarket Workers on Strike for Affordable Health
Benefits

An Action Alert 
from the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO 

November 21, 2003

Join striking supermarket workers on the line tomorrow! Local
labor, religious and community leaders, joined by hundreds of
striking and supporting union members, will launch the local
Safeway campaign at 12 noon on Saturday, November 22nd at the
Safeway store at 6500 Piney Branch Road NW in Washington, DC. 

After six weeks on the streets, Southern California supermarket
workers are taking their fight across the country. From the San
Francisco Bay to the Chesapeake, Safeway shoppers will be
confronted by striking UFCW members asking them: Do Not Shop
Safeway. More than 200 striking UFCW members from California and
West Virginia will blanket Safeway stores in Washington, D.C.
and Maryland and ask customers to take their grocery business to
a more responsible employer.

More than 70,000 United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union (UFCW) members in Southern California and
4,000 workers in West Virginia have been holding the line for
affordable health care at work against the Safeway-led charge to
destroy health benefits for workers and their families. Be there
on the line with them tomorrow: solidarity works!

For more information:
UFCW, Greg Denier, 202-466-1951
Jill Cashen, 202-728-4797
press at ufcw.org 
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