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Marc Cooper well describes the stakes in the California grocery strike--a critical struggle against corporate greed and to defend workers' healthcare ["Supermarket Showdown," Jan. 12/19]. But he gets the Teamsters story wrong when he writes, "The Teamsters say they have no choice but to send their drivers back to work." By "the Teamsters" he means Teamsters vice president Jim Santangelo, not the rank-and-file warehouse workers, office clerks and drivers. Santangelo and the Hoffa leadership had a choice, and they chose to fold.
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