LOCAL : Grocery Strike Is Put on Hold
A threatened strike by 70,000 Southern California supermarket workers was delayed indefinitely today as marathon negotiations continued past a union deadline and into a fifth consecutive day.
Negotiators for the union representing grocery clerks and meat cutters adjourned mediated talks with the Food Employers Council at 4:30 a.m., said Bob Bleiweiss, a United Food and Commercial Workers Union spokesman.
Employers presented a “partial proposal” to the union, to be taken up when the two sides meet again later today, Bleiweiss said. A strike threatened for 12:01 a.m. today was postponed indefinitely, he said.
“There’s no strike. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be one,” Bleiweiss said. “We have a proposal, where we didn’t have one several hours ago.”
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