February 29, 2004

California Strike. The SoCal grocery strike is over. Tens of thousands currently working in the stores will now lose their jobs. Unbelievable as this may sound, strikers were never allow a look at contract specifics by their union bosses -- and in fact it became clear over time that striking workers had agreed to strike based on completely false information from the people controlling the union.

The whole thing will likely be recorded as a complete waste of the time and money of everyone concerned. Happily, strikers were for the most part very well behaved. Only once did my wife witness a striker smashing a shopper over the head with a sign, while other strikers surrounded and verbally abused the victim. Don't know what the lady said or did to deserve that, but this was an isolated event, as far as I'm aware.

Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack