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# Negotiate a contract already
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/negotiate-a-contract-already-editor/
- Published: 2007-07-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:12:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Diann Hatfield Fair Oaks*

Union leaders love theatrics — strike authorizations, strike threats, block employer operations, jeopardize grocery worker jobs. Negotiating a contract at the bargaining table to protect good grocery worker jobs is what they need to perform. The theatrics only weaken the union’s arguments and alienate the public. Negotiate a contract.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 2, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/070207.pdf?ref=smdp.com)