Organizing a "Grocery Workers Justice Pilgrimage," southern California religious leaders accompanied striking workers on a bus journey from Los Angeles to the San Francisco area January 28 to deliver 10,000 cards and letters urging a key supermarket executive to return to the negotiating table in the four-month-old labor dispute

Christian Century, Feb 24, 2004

Organizing a "Grocery Workers Justice Pilgrimage," southern California religious leaders accompanied striking workers on a bus journey from Los Angeles to the San Francisco area January 28 to deliver 10,000 cards and letters urging a key supermarket executive to return to the negotiating table in the four-month-old labor dispute.

The interfaith Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), supported by regional Catholic and mainline leaders, took the cause to Alamo, California, near the home of Steve Burd, CEO of Safeway, which owns Von's Markets, one of three major supermarket chains that have hired temporary employees in a strike-lockout now at an impasse, mostly over health benefits.