Customers Rally To Support Striking Workers in Fight for Affordable Health Care.News Editors/Business Editors ORANGE COUNTY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2003 "Success tends to favor the prepared, and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to save our health care," says a striking worker Energized by a full-page advertisement that appeared today in Southern California's major newspapers, supermarket workers and their supporters have announced a series of rallies throughout the region. In the advertisement, striking and locked-out workers at Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores thank the public for supporting them and honoring their picket lines. At the end of the second week of an epic strike and lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout , more than 70,000 supermarket workers in some 850 stores are strong, unified and passionate in their commitment to protect their health care benefits. They are fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. by overwhelming customer support that is resulting in empty parking lots and shopping aisles. Customers are walking with their striking and locked-out friends and neighbors on the picket lines and delivering bountiful Bountiful, city (1990 pop. 36,659), Davis co., N central Utah; inc. 1892. It is a residential suburb N of Salt Lake City with some farming and floral nurseries; machinery and motor vehicles are produced. Bountiful was settled by Mormons in 1847. donations of food and water. Said a striking worker: "Success tends to favor the prepared, and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to save our health care." Adding still more strength to the workers' cause will be a series of rallies in local communities (see highlights below) that will feature government officials and leaders of the Labor and Civil Rights Movements, including California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. , Workers Rights Activist Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Jesse Louis Jackson, Jackson and members of the Teamsters Union Teamsters Union, U.S. labor union formed in 1903 by the amalgamation of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union. Its full name is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America (IBT). . Also participating will be locked-out employees from Ralphs and Albertsons, as well as workers from Stater stat·er 1 n. A resident of a particular state or type of state. Often used in combination: Lone Star staters; farm staters; the struggle between slave staters and free staters. Noun 1. Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . and Gelson's who are not on strike or locked out. The events are expected to draw hundreds of community members to participate in mass picket lines to support the struggle of striking supermarket workers to retain their health and retirement benefits.
Saturday, Oct. 25
Teamsters Support Rally
Long Beach 9 a.m. 6255 E. 2nd Ave.
Albertsons
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General
Fullerton 3 p.m. 1930 N. Placentia Ave.
Albertsons District Headquarters
Sunday, Oct. 26
Jesse Jackson, Workers Rights Activist
Fullerton 5 p.m. 914 W. Orangethorpe
Albertsons
Community Rally
Buena Park 11 a.m. 6080 Ball Rd.
Ralphs
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