PASADENA — Stater Bros. workers, union leaders, members and community supporters called for a boycott of the supermarket chain’s Pasadena store on Monday.
“Twelve thousand Stater Bros. workers across Southern California have been working under a contract that expired in March,” according to a statement by United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 770. “They’ve been negotiating with the company for nearly five months to get the wages, staffing levels and benefits they deserve but instead of bargaining in good faith, the company has engaged in unfair labor practices, including surveillance, interrogation, retaliation and unlawfully restricting workers’ right to engage in protected union activities.”
Stater Bros. Corporate Headquarters was not open at the time of this reporting, so a response was unavailable…