Grocery workers are gearing up to potentially strike against Stater Bros over failed contract negotiations – which could be the first picket line against the 88-year-old company.

President of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324, Andrea Zinder, said the new management refuses to meet the demands of workers.

“The new management is really profit bottom line oriented at any expense,” Zinder said in a Tuesday interview.

Last week, 12,000 Stater Bros. workers across Southern California voted to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike, accusing the company of illegally surveilling, interrogating, and targeting union members, according to a news release on July 25.

“They have been doing whatever they think is necessary to force employees (our members) to back down from the kin

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