Saturday, September 17, 2011

STRIKE! Get READY for PICKET LINES at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GROCERY STORES! Candlelight Vigil Planned for Sunday Night!

A Candlelight Vigil will be held on Sunday night, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pavilion Place in Beverly Hills.

Grocery store chains say stores will close if Southern California workers go on strike.

By Randy Economy
Sunday, September 18, 2011
2:45 p.m. PST

LOS ANGELES — Here we go. Get ready for another "super market" strike here in Southern California, and this one could be a real wild ride for consumers like you and me. We are now "officially" in the 11th HOUR before an "official" strike could be called by leaders of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.

I live in Cerritos. Most of the supermarkets in our "neck of the woods" consist mainly of "ethnic" supermarkets that cater to a very large and influential Asian and Hispanic "clientele," and most of them do not belong to a union. But, grocery store chains are laying plans in the event grocery workers decide to go on strike over stalled contract negotiations on Sunday night — Ralphs will close, Albertsons may and Vons intends to stay open. "Ralphs will initially close all of our stores,” said spokeswoman Kendra Doyel in a statement. “During a strike, it is difficult to create a good shopping experience for our customers and a good working environment for our employees.”
Albertsons spokeswoman Christie Ly said in a statement that up to 100 Albertsons stores could close for some or all of the strike.
“One of the lessons we learned during the 2003-04 labor dispute is that it doesn’t make good business sense to try to operate all our stores during a strike,” said Ly.

Officials at the Von's grocery chain have said they intend to remain open if a strike is called. A candlelight vigil is going to be held on Sunday night, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pavilions Plaza at 9467 Olympic Blvd., in Beverly Hills.

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”