Keep Communicating in the Grocery Strike

Re the supermarket strike: This is not about win or lose; this is about compromise. If there is no talking going on, nothing will happen. Like a bad marriage, if there is no communication, there will be a divorce, and everyone suffers. So, my hope is that all the leaders who are responsible for this long-standing strike will put their egos aside and think of all the people affected by their actions, so they can communicate and work diligently to end this strike.

Vicky Fong

Los Angeles

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Why blame Wal-Mart for the reduction in workforce benefits? Corporate corruption, stock market greed and social services for immigrants who have no right to be here are the real culprits. I have just received my employee-benefit package for 2004. The changes include a higher health-care deductible and lower coverage. And my health-care insurance premium also has increased. Do I feel sorry for the grocery workers who may have to pay for health care as I do? Of course I do. But it seems to be a fact of life that the middle-class worker foots the bill when the upper class and the lower class lack integrity.

If our government would just enforce our laws it would help our economy. In the meantime, I need to shop at Wal-Mart.

Joanne Law

Chatsworth