In Kalifornien streiken die Angestellten von drei Lebensmittelketten: (LA Times) Leaders of the grocery workers union in Southern California called on thousands of its members to walk off their jobs late Saturday, launching the region's first supermarket strike in 25 years. The order came after a day of jangled nerves and intense but ultimately fruitless efforts by union and supermarket negotiators to avert a strike. Despite the intervention of a federal mediator, negotiators called it quits Saturday night after nine hours of talks at an Anaheim hotel, with the two sides still far apart on issues of health benefits and wages for new hires.