[lbo-talk] LA Grocery Strike: Where Was the Left?

[Tom]

One explanation why the grocery workers lost the
California supermarket strike is that they didn't have
the objective social power to impose their terms. The
calls for symbolic action like sitting in Walmart seem
to take that hypothesis as a premise. 

Did grocery workers used to have more ability to stop
stores from selling groceries? Or did some
supermarkets get to be union through the power of
truckers, or of skilled workers that used to work in
supermarkets, like butchers? 

Tom

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