More to grocery strikes than meet the eye and you are going to have big time strikes in your neighborhood soon. The reasons are spelled out in today's New York Times and they are simple: Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart has already helped push more than two dozen national supermarket chains into bankruptcy over the past decade.

They pay workers much lower wages and no medical coverage. Who's fault is this? I blame the stupid unions who as a part of their contracts with management owe those managements something in return; that something is that they organize the workers in the competitive stores so they can maintain wages and benefits, something not mentioned in the oh so Left Times piece.

A big savings for Wal-Mart comes in health care, where Wal-Mart pays 30 percent less for coverage for each insured worker than the industry average. An estimated 40 percent of employees are not covered by its health plan because many cannot afford the premiums or have not worked at Wal-Mart long enough to qualify.

Meaning that Wal-Mart employees more than often are taken care of by public assistance when they get sick or injured. Unions are supposed to prevent this but they have become lazy as hell.

What to do? Here's what. The grocery clerks are faced with ruinous job losses caused by low cost non-union workers staffing big competition. They have consistently failed to effectively organize, mainly because they are too lazy and partly they are too stupid to follow every worker who gets sick and is forced onto Public Assistance and publicize it. But what they really need to do is get together with the stores who have had the decency to sign contracts with them, pay workers a decent wage, and provide for health care and go to war. I would drop wages in every Wal-Mart area to next to nothing if need be in order to cut grocery costs at union chains by fifty or sixty or even seventy percent while maintaining picket lines around Wal-Mart comparing prices. But this takes real balls and a commitment. Something lacking in this society.