Food Drive Benefits Striking Grocery Workers
Labor Council Organizes Event
POSTED: 5:39 pm PST December 23, 2003
UPDATED: 5:49 pm PST December 23, 2003
SAN DIEGO -- Hundreds of striking grocery workers gathered at Qualcomm Stadium Tuesday for a food and toy drive organized by the San Diego County Labor Council.
"My cupboards are bare. I don't have anything to cook," striker Heddie Klein said.It's an extremely tough week for many of the strikers. The grocery workers will lose two-thirds of their strike pay the day after Christmas and will lose their health benefits at the end of the month.Pat Salzarillo is a union representative for grocery workers and said while it is a joy to give, the reality of why the families are in need is sobering."They want to work. They are good people. It just hurts to know the companies let them out on the streets at this time," Salzarillo said.Along with the food donations, toys were given to children. The Labor Council also adopted 100 of the neediest families in the grocery strike."It's really neat because my kids understand they're not going to get the toys they usually get, but they got to meet the family that's going to have a Christmas so it really puts a meaning in what are we are supposed to be doing," said Jerry Burkiewicz of the Labor Council.Other unions have adopted specific grocery store locations to take care of strikers and their families.
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Previous Stories:
- 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 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 22, 2003: Grocers: Wal-Mart Playing Part In Grocery Strike
- October 20, 2003: Strike Splits Small Town Between Stores, Workers
- 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: Supermarket Strike Sends Shoppers Elsewhere
- October 13, 2003: Grocery Workers Strike, Locked Out
- October 10, 2003: Stock Up Before Supermarket Strike
- October 8, 2003: Supermarket Strike Around The Corner?
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