MANHATTAN: GROCERY WORKERS SHOT -- Two grocery store workers were shot in the stomach and seriously wounded during an attempted robbery in East Harlem last night, the police said.
Wal-Mart's grocery workers average less than $9 an hour.
The president of the grocery workers' union, Doug Dority, who was joined in the march by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Its workers earn a third less than unionized grocery workers, and pay for much of their health insurance.
Illegal aliens pose a potential health hazard to the community since many seek work as nursemaids, food handlers, cooks, housekeepers, waiters, dishwashers, and grocery workers.
He helped the grocery workers' union in its fight against Wal-Mart, while separately representing the owners of scores of nonunion groceries that the union said exploited workers.
"We are the ones pushing this," Julio Rosales, 25, said during an interview in the small Brooklyn apartment he shares with five other Honduran grocery workers.
In fact, Wal-Mart will employ fewer than 4,000 nonunion grocery workers to compete with the more than 200,000 existing United Food and Commercial Workers employees.
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.
PAGE A12 Grocery Deal Criticized Many California grocery workers are complaining about the wages and benefits in a tentative agreement that ended a 138-day dispute.
The union effort is being coordinated by Pat Purcell, director of organizing for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1500, which represents 22,000 grocery workers.
