Customers at the Ralphs grocery store at Marina Pacifica were greeted Friday by horns and other noise makers that accompanied chants from workers.
Dozens of unionized workers gathered outside the store for a rally demanding Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs, and Albertsons, which also owns Vons, offer a fair contract amid contentious contract negotiations.
“We’ve been bargaining for five months now and we’re fed up with these corporations’ union-busting tactics designed to intimidate workers and prevent them from getting the fair contract that they have earned and deserve,” Andrea Zinder, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324, said during the rally, adding that employees are “overworked, disrespected and undervalued while grocery companies do everything they can to make executives and Wall Street investors rich.”…