No Winners in Long Supermarket Strike

Re “Missteps Hurt Union in Supermarket Strike,” Feb. 11: Recently, on the news, a union official harangued the pickets in front of a Vons to confront shoppers and “make their shopping experience miserable.” With idiots like this calling the shots, the strike is bound to fail. Highly paid union officials have led the strikers to the edge of a precipice where there are only two choices: jump or go back to work. If anything good comes out of the strike it will be a complete housecleaning of the union hierarchy.

Jack Bailey

Studio City

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Another Tuesday of ripping up the Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons ads without even looking at them. Those of you who continue crossing these market picket lines should remember the next health benefits at stake could be mine, yours or your relatives’. Shoppers are discovering independent markets that are trying their utmost to accommodate these new customers. If I were Vons, Ralphs or Albertsons, I would worry about the long-term cost to their businesses of being such Scrooge-like employers.

Marianne Friedman

Alhambra