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No Resolution Seems Near in Northern California Supermarket Strike.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1995 by Levander, Michelle

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Apr. 12--The supermarket strike at Northern California's Safeway, Lucky and Save Mart stores will be a week old tonight, and there is little reason to believe it will be resolved soon. Tuesday afternoon, both an independent mediator and a federal mediator called the two sides together for a meeting Thursday.

Here is a summary of the dispute and the issues behind it. Q How did the labor dispute begin between supermarket workers and Northern California Lucky, Safeway and Save Mart stores?

A Their last contract expired March 4 and was extended by both sides during bargaining talks. After a month of negotiations that yielded little progress, the United Food and Commercial Workers broke off talks April 2 and held strike votes among its members....

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