Grocery, Union Talks Continue This Morning

Representatives from three supermarket chains and the union representing 62,000 grocery store clerks held contract negotiations early Monday to avoid another supermarket strike in Southern California.

“They really are looking at every possibility,” said Todd Conger, spokesman for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 324 in Buena Park. “We really don't want to strike.”

Conger said supermarket jobs have been “good middle-class jobs,” but the big three chains are trying to make them “Burger King jobs.

“It's about them absolutely gutting the health insurance plans and increasing the premiums and claiming the issue is over a couple of dollars,” he said.

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