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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8818953" data-attributes="member: 4348">If I understand it right...That's actually between the US and Canada.  Canada has easier access to Unions and have 436,000 grocery workers in Canada.Add in another 383,000 (almost 384,000 in California) and it's not hard to get to 800,000 between the two.Most of the Grocery worker Unions are not found in most of the other states, though many of the UCFW union workers are NOT grocery workers (800K is the grocers, but you also have meat packers, and others.  One example of a strike of other UCFW members would be Colorado for example which dealt with a marijuana, others with factories, warehouses and plants in Kentucky and elsewhere) and ARE found in many locations.  They (the grocer arm) have limited representation in some more liberal areas of the US such as the North East.Efforts to enforce or attain unionizations in many other areas of the US from grocers have failed.  Some of it with dirty underhanded tactics where the Unions in theory would win, but due to filing bankruptcy and dissolution to reform anew killed the planned strikes.Most of the attempts outside of California have met with similar oppositions among grocery stores to make it so the unions are either not recognized or minimized in their power and ability.  At least from what I've seen in the US (which admittedly may not be the full picture).</blockquote>