Striking Begins At Ralphs Loading Docks
Move Forces Management To Unload Products Themselves
POSTED: 10:11 am PST January 13, 2004
UPDATED: 11:28 am PST January 13, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- The grocery strike is entering its fourth month with a new move from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to put choke the food supply line.
Grocery workers started striking the Ralphs loading docks Tuesday morning.In October, union leaders pulled the pickets from all Ralphs stores saying they wanted to give customers the option to shop there.Union leaders were hoping the move would encourage Ralphs to break ranks with the other chains and end it's lockout, but it never happened.Workers asked the Teamsters not to deliver products to the loading docks. This will force the Ralphs management to unload the products themselves.Meantime, formal talks are set to resume later this month. A secret attempt to settle the strike failed over the weekend.The main sticking point continues to be the cost and scope of health care benefits for current employees and future hires.
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Strikers Take Different Tack In Labor Dispute Previous Stories:
- January 3, 2004: Suit Alleges Unlawful Hiring By Ralphs
- December 23, 2003: Food Drive Benefits Striking Grocery Workers
- December 16, 2003: Union Leaders Call For Grocery Boycott
- December 11, 2003: No End In Sight For Grocery Strike
- December 8, 2003: Picket Lines Expected To Expand
- December 4, 2003: Striking Store Shelves Shriveling?
- December 2, 2003: Charities Suffer From Grocery Strike
- December 2, 2003: Fourth Try At Grocery Strike Negotiations Begins
- November 29, 2003: Forth Round Of Supermarket/Union Talks Scheduled
- November 26, 2003: Strike Takes Toll On Stores, Shoppers
- November 25, 2003: Grocery Strike Takes Turn For Worse
- November 21, 2003: Grocery Negotiations To Resume
- November 10, 2003: Grocery Strike: Both Sides Talking
- October 31, 2003: Union 'Making Life Easier' For Grocery Consumers
- October 24, 2003: Charities Benefiting From Strike?
- October 23, 2003: Teamsters Honor Strike; Stores Left In Lurch
- October 22, 2003: Striker Enters Plea For Assault Charges
- October 22, 2003: Grocers: Wal-Mart Playing Part In Grocery Strike
- October 22, 2003: Suspected Assaulter Denies Beating Replacement Worker
- October 20, 2003: Strike Splits Small Town Between Stores, Workers
- October 19, 2003: Strike Takes Toll On Stores
- October 17, 2003: Teamsters Consider Closing Distribution Warehouses
- October 16, 2003: CA, Six States Strike Historic Water Deal
- October 16, 2003: Economist: Strike Could Cost State $6M Per Day
- October 15, 2003: Lawyer: Union Lawsuit Has No Merit
- October 14, 2003: Grocery Clerks Continue To Picket
- October 14, 2003: Albertsons, Ralphs Face $600 M Lawsuit
- October 14, 2003: Supermarket Strike Sends Shoppers Elsewhere
- October 13, 2003: Grocery Workers Strike, Locked Out
- October 11, 2003: Supermarket/Union Negotiations Continue
- October 10, 2003: Stock Up Before Supermarket Strike
- October 8, 2003: Supermarket Strike Around The Corner?
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