Vol.61/No.17           April 28, 1997 
 
 
10,000 Grocery Workers Strike In Alberta  
Ten thousand members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) have set up picket lines at 73 Safeway grocery stores in the Canadian province of Alberta. The main issues include regaining wage concessions and preventing a further decline in the ratio of full-time to part-time positions. This strike comes after 12,000 workers across British Columbia struck Safeway last summer for five weeks. Workers have been without a contract since March 1996.  
 
 
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