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Strike takes a big bite out of in-store businesses: workplace: companies shutter many locations until stoppage is settled.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-OCT-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Strike takes a big bite out of in-store businesses: workplace: companies shutter many locations until stoppage is settled.(grocery clerks'' employment dispute)

Article Excerpt
When the grocery clerks' employment dispute began earlier this month, Dress for Success Cleaners, which operates 82 dry cleaning units within Southern California Vons and Albertsons stores, felt the pain.

"When (members of United Food and Commercial Workers) walked out, we had no employees," said Greg Buckingham, Dress For Success president. "We decided to try to keep open our 25 highest-volume stores to keep our market presence."

Except for management, the cleaners' staff members are direct employees of the supermarkets, and were walking picket lines.

By late last week, Buckingham said the Santa Ana-based company had 35 units open in the region, including eight in San Diego County.

The strike-affected stores were operating at reduced hours...

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