The SoCal grocery strike that is about to go national...IF....if it is successful here, and it looks more and more like the strikers will lose. I posted in detail what this strike is actually about but the bottom line for the clerks is that they are throwing away very good wages and benefits for a low skill job to make a stupid 1930s strike "statement". Most of us on the web live in middle class areas and don't realize what a grocery clerk in working class and lower class areas has to put up with. I once lived close to a Market serving that kind of area, and I want to tell you that the customers there are the most horrible people you can imagine. Every time I went in there a customer would assault a clerk either verbally of physically. There were FOUR guards inside the market to handle these semi-gangsters. All of the conflicts were over people trying to steal merchandise. So not all jobs are with polite and nice people. So give them combat pay to work in minority neighborhoods. The big chains are under assault by non-union discounters like Wal_Mart and management can't stay in business if some costs aren't cut. What happens here, or doesn't happen here, will be national.