Grocery workers have reached an agreement with Southern California grocery chains. The deal was reached Monday, a day after workers could have gone on strike. The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents the workers said that the workers stood together to get a fair contract. The contract, which will cover about 62,000 workers, will be voted on by the workers on Saturday. Both sides wanted to avoid a strike, with some of the chains saying that they would initially close most, if not all of their stores
See "S. California grocery union makes tentative deal", Jacob Adelman, September 19, 2011