Many scales are unfortunately marked in kilograms for convenience to grocery workers.

In the view of some experts, though, this strike by stock clerks, cashiers and other grocery workers reflects an environment much broader in scope.

Far more grocery workers than retail workers are organized.

Its workers earn a third less than unionized grocery workers, and pay for much of their health insurance.

He remained active in the grocery workers' union even after he became a store owner, worked six days a week and never took a single vacation.

California's grocery workers and supermarket chains are trying to slow or stop the company's expansion.

"They might take the bread he bought for his grandmother and smush it in the ground," a grocery worker said.

She seemed unhappy being the wife of a grocery worker.

Wal-Mart's grocery workers average less than $9 an hour.

The law covering health care benefits for grocery workers initially included laundry, building and construction workers, but those industries were later dropped from the law.