At the podium:

Linda Chavez-Thompson AFL-CIO executive vice president

Duration: 5:17

“We are here today to tell Steve Bryd to shove it! It is a shame that these workers have worked for year and years and years in these grocery stores, they have earned their healthcare, they have earned their benefits and now this idiot thinks he can take it away… We are the ones that are going to hold the line…”

note: event PA speakers were slightly blown, hence the sound “pops”.

Talk of proactive militancy and financial support charges up the batteries

International Longshore and Warehouse Union pledges a million bucks to the UFCW strike fund.

Duration 6:20

“This struggle didn’t start a few months ago, this struggle started long before… we came from this struggle…”

Durations 0:53

The march stretched across three sides of the forum parking lot and then down the street – a long way.

UFCW organinzer.