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# Grocery store workers make pilgrimage
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/grocery-store-workers-make-pilgrimage/
- Published: 2004-01-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:40:47.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Dozens of faith leaders and workers’ rights groups throughout the state today will make a pilgrimage to the San Francisco home of the CEO of Safeway to urge him to end the supermarket dispute.

Locally, the group will hold a prayer service in front of Vons at 14845 Ventura Blvd. today at 9 a.m.

Participants will call upon Steve Burd as a man of faith to return to the negotiating table and reach a fair settlement that includes affordable health care coverage for all supermarket workers. Workers and clergy will join prayer services along the pilgrimage route in Santa Barbara and San Jose. The pilgrimage will culminate with a prayer service and two-mile procession to Burd’s home.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 27, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)