April 2nd - Lessons of the Southern California Grocery Workers Strike

Safeway Will Attack the Bay Area Next


This Sept 11 the contracts are of for Safeway and Albertsons workers in the Bay area. Nationally, over 70,000 grocery workers will be facing new contracts this year.


When the contracts were up for the grocery workers in Southern California, 60,000 workers overnight were
on strike and even locked out of their workplace for over four mouths to defend affordable health care and other benefits.


The union and the workers were not prepared for this onslaught. We must begin to organize now to stop such attacks that are coming to the Bay area's 30,000 grocery workers. We must not be caught by surprise!
Together, and properly prepared, we are a powerful force!


The Southern California grocery strike affects its all. Private employers will be trying to follow in the grocery chains' footsteps. Public workers - at BART, city and state workers, Muni and AC Transit - are already under attack. Organizing and fighting is how we can defend the gains of the past - not by relying on the politicians.


Public Forum


Come to a public meeting to discuss how we can fight these attacks on our jobs wages and benefits. A striker from Southern California will be one of the speakers, talking about their experiences and the practical lessons of the strike.


Date: Friday, April 2, 2004
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland (right off Broadway)


Meeting organized by the Bay Area Strike Solidarity Organization (BASSO) For more information, contact Javsacs [at] yahoo.com or call (510) 655-5764


BASSO organizing meetings are every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. at 2022 Blake St., Berkeley.


Posted by a Wobbly in Solidarity.