Southern California grocery workers resume contract negotiations, ‘practice strikes’ on the way

Southern California grocery workers could strike. Would it impact SLO County stores?

Southern California grocery workers may strike for fair contracts, impacting Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons in San Luis Obispo County.

Southern California grocery workers resume contract negotiations, ‘practice strikes’ on the way

The first negotiations for a new contract for workers at Albertsons, Pavilions, Ralphs and Vons grocery stores from San Luis Obispo to the U.S.-Mexico border since they voted overwhelmingly to authorize an unfair labor practices strike began Wednesday. The United Food and Commercial Workers has accused the stores of conducting “surveillance, threats and interrogation of employees” and other “union-busting tactics are designed to interfere with w…