Buena Park labor leader Andrea Zinder, a 42-year veteran of the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Los Angeles and Orange counties and who led tough negotiations with major supermarket chains in Southern California for decades, died unexpectedly last week.

Zinder was 67.

UFCW said in a statement that her death Saturday, Sept. 27 was “unexpected” and did not provide a cause of death.

Kathy Finn, the president of UFCW Local 770, worked with Zinder on just about every major labor campaign for the past quarter-century.

“She was feisty on everything,” Finn said Monday of her close friend. “I worked with her so many years. She was the backbone for the bargaining team for Southern California. She had the history and knowledge to absolutely be steadfast and not give up anything. She w

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