DEAR EDITOR:
For those readers who might be interested in some of the
motivations behind a recent debate conducted on the opinion page of
The Dispatch, the following is quoted from The Northern California
Teamster, a union news letter, issue of May-July 2003, volume 48,
number 2, top of page 2:
DEAR EDITOR:
For those readers who might be interested in some of the motivations behind a recent debate conducted on the opinion page of The Dispatch, the following is quoted from The Northern California Teamster, a union news letter, issue of May-July 2003, volume 48, number 2, top of page 2:
“As this issue goes to press, Joint Council 7 and its affiliates are engaged in a region-wide struggle to keep Wal-Mart supercenters – with their low wages, pitiful benefits, and union-busting tactics – out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Working their way slowly up I-5 and Highway 101, the 200,000 square foot monstrosities would shut down Safeway, Albertson’s and other legitimate union stores, as well as the Teamster-run warehouses that supply them.
The Teamsters are working closely with the United Food and Commercial Workers, focusing on campaigns in Fremont, Oakland, and Gilroy. “We’re also working with the UFCW to create a program for the whole state,” said Joint Council 7 President Chuck Mack. “WalMart is like an 800-pound gorilla banging down the door. We need to put all our resources together.”
Always nice to see social justice in action, ain’t it?
Stuart Allen, Gilroy
Submitted Saturday, May 10 to ed****@****ic.com
