California supermarket workers to vote on strike

Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:27pm EDT
 
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"A strike is the very last option for us," Shimpock said. "No one wants to go on strike, but we really have no other choice."

In Texas, contract talks between Kroger and the union continue in Dallas and Houston. On Thursday, the union there held a news conference to call attention to what it says is Kroger's attack on workers' health care.

 

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