Profile: Santa Catalina Island feeling brunt of supermarket strike with Vons being their only major grocery store

NPR Special | October 24, 2003| | Copyright

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
10-24-2003
Profile: Santa Catalina Island feeling brunt of supermarket strike with Vons being their only major grocery store

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Here in Southern California, a strike by supermarket workers has strained many communities. It's especially bad in a place you'd normally think of as paradisiacal: Santa Catalina, a small island off the California coast. The islanders must either cross the picket lines or cross more than 20 miles of Pacific Ocean to shop on the mainland. Here's reporter Alex Cohen.

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