10/23/2003

Picket Line violence breaks out in SoCal grocery strike. You could see this coming a mile away. First day of strike the pickets lined the curbs smiling and laughing. The union picked Hooters waitresses or something as tightly dressed pickets I guess, because the picket lines were mostly babes. This changed within two days. By the end of the first week pickets were getting angry and standing and glaring at passing traffic. Now they attack replacement workers with baseball bats and stalk them. This is what happens when jobs are threatened. This strike is completely un-necessary as I posted a week ago. Management is threatened with bankruptcy. The Union workers are threatened with loss of jobs and medical care coverage. A formula for violence, while both avoid talking about the real issue: Wall-Mart and their non-union low paid and benefit poor work force stepping into the local market. Get ready in your town.

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