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Supermarket Workers Strike in Northern California: United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 870 spokesman Len Konecny said 15,000 meat cutters, food clerks and baggers walked off their jobs at more than 200 Safeway stores shortly after midnight Wednesday. Pickets went up at Safeway stores from Fresno to the Oregon border. Unions set the midnight strike deadline after a three-year contract covering workers at three store chains in Northern California--Safeway, Lucky and Save Mart--expired in March. Negotiations broke down Wednesday night.
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