Jeanne on Strike

Jeanne d'Arc has some thoughts about the So. Cal. grocery store strike/lockout (snippets):

One little bit of sunshine I've had lately is driving by Vons and seeing the empty parking lot. I suspect a lot of people aren't crossing the picket line not because they support the union, but because it's hard to get caught hurting someone you deal with regularly. The checkers have an advantage other unions don't have. Customers know them. But with luck maybe a few extra people will remember this strike, learn something from it, and remember that crossing somebody's picket line is a cruel act, even if you don't know them. ..... And miracle of miracles, the San Diego Union-Tribune, which has always been a very conservative newspaper, has a surprisingly reasonable article about the grocery strike. This is the first article I've seen that really captures the importance of this strike -- "This is a strike about whether supermarket workers will be part of the middle class or the working poor" -- and acknowledges what two decades of union busting have done to the middle class in this country. The New York Times has a good look at the alternative if this strike fails -- Wal-Mart wages.

Go read the entire post and check out her links to the newspaper articles.