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  May 9, 2007 Uninsured Grocery Workers' Children Without Health Care on Mother's Day  WHAT: 20,000 children in Southern California without Health Care on Mothers’ Day – thanks to Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons supermarkets. Coalition speaks out to media, customers
WHEN: 10AM, Thursday, May 10
WHERE: Albertsons Los Feliz 2035 Hillhurst Ave. (just south of Los Feliz Blvd.), L.A., 90027
WHO: Grocery Workers, Nurses, Children’s Advocates, community leaders, elected officials
VISUALS: Thousands of Flowers representing children with no health care in Los Angeles, Clergy, mothers, children and coalition members distributing information, flowers to customers.
Despite record profits in the billions for Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons, tens of thousands of their employees’ children are forced to go without access to healthcare.
Average profits for the corporations that own Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons/Pavilions are nearly $3 billion each. But a University of California report shows that health care coverage for unionized grocery workers in Southern California has dropped precipitously since the last contract – from 94 percent to 54 percent in just three years, and the number of children covered dropping by more than 20,000 in that same period.
This Thursday, a coalition made up of Clergy, children’s advocates, nurses and community leaders will hold Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons accountable for denying tens of thousands of children healthcare and reach out to customers urging them to support grocery workers’ efforts to get a contract with health care coverage for their children.
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