Reply #2: From the Picket Line in St. Louis, MO [View All]

Here are a few ideas that could be of help.

1). Be sure to honk and wave whenever you pass the line. It really does help boost morale.

2). Contact the company offices and inform them in no uncertain terms that you will not shop in their stores until this is resolved. Get all your friends, neighbors and all the DU'ers in the area to do so. Nothing makes a point like an angry customer.

3). Write to the local newspaper or get on their online discussion boards and back the workers with some comments.

4). Drop off a box of donuts or cokes at the line if you can. The Fire House near my store has been Super in seeing that we have donuts. The Police Dept brought Pizza one evening. City work trucks go by honking, bus drivers give a thumbs up! Customers bring cupcakes! It's truely amazing.

5). Write your elected officials and ask them to get the parties together to get this over with. Your state is losing tax money from lower sales taxes and withholding. Every state is in a budget crunch so those tax dollars are important.

6). Vote in every web poll that you come across to support the workers.

7). Contributions to the local's strike fund I am certain would be appreciated. I am sure they are listed in the phone books there.

This strike is about hanging onto what the workers have, not being greedy. The chains have decided that they can pay lip service to customer service and lock out their fully trained workforce, replacing them with people off the street that have trouble finding the stores much less getting anything done in them. Grocecy workers do work hard everyday to take care of their customers (when the company allows that to happen) and try to have a little of the American Dream.

Thanks on all our behalf,