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SAFEWAY STRIKE Solidarity Action
Solidarity action for grocery workers!
This is an action you can do on your own. It is easy, legal (basically) and will have a significant effect if enough people do it.
Go into your local Safeway/Albertsons/Ralphs at a time there are no picket lines.
Get a shopping cart, and wander through the aisles, and fill it up with random groceries grab one of everything and toss it in a big pile in the cart.
Walk out of the store. While it is easy to take stuff off of shelves, reshelving is a real pain in the ass. The SCABS working Safeway are being paid to do someone elses job from them. Messing with them like this makes them less able to do the job of the workers they are filling in for and will co$t the store manager greatly as a well packed basket could take on the order of 30 minutes to reshelve.
Go with friends if you want, and you might enhance the action in the following way:
Go up to the checkout, and have them scan a couple of hundred bucks of groceries in (and do this in multiple checkout lines) and then ask, " Waaaaiiit just a secoond... Arent Safeway workers on strike. You are all a bunch of SCABS arent you? I dont do business with SCABS!" And then walk out leaving them holding the bag.
Go into your local Safeway/Albertsons/Ralphs at a time there are no picket lines.
Get a shopping cart, and wander through the aisles, and fill it up with random groceries grab one of everything and toss it in a big pile in the cart.
Walk out of the store. While it is easy to take stuff off of shelves, reshelving is a real pain in the ass. The SCABS working Safeway are being paid to do someone elses job from them. Messing with them like this makes them less able to do the job of the workers they are filling in for and will co$t the store manager greatly as a well packed basket could take on the order of 30 minutes to reshelve.
Go with friends if you want, and you might enhance the action in the following way:
Go up to the checkout, and have them scan a couple of hundred bucks of groceries in (and do this in multiple checkout lines) and then ask, " Waaaaiiit just a secoond... Arent Safeway workers on strike. You are all a bunch of SCABS arent you? I dont do business with SCABS!" And then walk out leaving them holding the bag.
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