Safeway Strike over Health Care
Benefits Important to All Workers

February 17, 2004

Workers at Safeway and its affiliated stores in California have been on a bitter four-month strike for a new contract. Among the critical issues is protecting decent, affordable health care for the 70,000 workers, who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Safeway has repeatedly claimed that it needs to slash the pay and benefits of its workforce in order to compete with the low-cost grocery chains, especially Wal-Mart.

The Safeway workers fight is everyones fight. If this trend continues, the lowest common denominator set by companies like Wal-Mart will undercut the pay and benefit standards in every industry.

Click here to read the latest developments on the strike, including how you can help.