Back to work.Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Some 60,000 grocery workers are going back to their jobs after more than four months on strike in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.4 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile and (UFCW UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers ) struck at three large supermarket chains. The union preserved health care benefits for current workers but was unable to defeat the chains' demands for a two-tier wage system and increased health care costs for future workers. Kirk Spencer, a Vons cashier, stands outside the supermarket on February 25. Katherine Doyle, a Vons supermarket checker for seventeen years, looks at the cart full of bread donated for a union picnic. |
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