LOS ANGELES--After 15 weeks of a Southern California grocery-worker strike-lockout one group, is turning to faith for a solution.

The Associated Press reported that a religious group CLUE planned to demonstrate near the home of the Safeway Inc. CEO Steve Burd. The grocery workers regard Burd as the chief strategist behind the supermarket company's attempt to reduce employee health care.

About 150 grocery workers, clergy and others planned to march from a Safeway store in Alamo to Burd's nearby home and hold a prayer vigil. The group also planned to give Burd letters and postcards from religious leaders and churchgoers around the state. The march and the mail urge Burd to resume labor talks with union negotiators.

The group wanted its message to resonate with Burd, who is an active member of a conservative evangelical Christian church in Walnut Creek, according to Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, the group's executive director.

"A business leader or a political leader, they have two people inside of themselves--the person that they are in their church community ... and the person they are in their business or political arena," said Rev. Salvatierra. "We want to break down the wall so that Steve Burd comes face to face with himself."

Safeway spokesman Brian Dowling said Burd knew of the planned vigil. "We've taken the steps necessary for whatever rises," Dowling said. "This sort of activity, with all due respect, plays absolutely no constructive role."