The California supermarket strike has been criticized as lacking a clear and consistent strategy. The strike effort has been unfavorably compared to the highly successful "Justice for Janitors" strike in 2000. Rivalries between local unions and an unwillingness to adopt labor union reforms have been blamed for the apparent failure of the strike effort.
See "Missteps Hurt Union in Supermarket Strike", Nancy Cleeland, Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2004