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Lucky Employees Continue Working: About 1,700 warehouse employees and drivers for Lucky Stores reported for work Monday without a contract after all-night negotiations averted a strike at the supermarket chain’s 235 Southern California stores but failed to produce an agreement. Letting a 12:01 a.m. strike deadline pass, negotiators for the Teamsters and Lucky talked through the night and returned to the bargaining table later in the day to meet with a federal mediator over issues of job security, work preservation and flexible workweeks. “There’s no extension of the contract. We’re just going day-to-day,” said Ed Mireles, head of Teamsters Local 952 in Orange, shortly before heading into a 5 p.m. session.