Union touts study of health care costs in grocery fight.

From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, California) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: July 23, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: James Temple

Jul. 23--SAN FRANCISCO -- If the grocery contracts approved after a 139-day strike in Southern California were extended to unionized stores throughout the state, as much as $293 million in health care costs would be shifted from employers to California taxpayers by 2007, according to a study sponsored by the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Supermarkets responded that the study, conducted by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and...

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