The union representing Haggen’s workers is getting a seat at the table on the struggling grocery chain’s bankruptcy reorganization, although it’s unclear how much influence it will be able to exert in the process, the Seattle Times reported today. Documents filed with a bankruptcy court in Delaware showed that the U.S. Trustee’s office overseeing the case picked United Food and Commercial Workers International as one of the seven members of the unsecured creditors committee. The members represent the dozens of parties to whom Haggen owes money, but whose claims are not backed by collateral assets. The other members of the committee are distributor Unified Grocers, PepsiCo, Starbucks, Santa Monica Seafood, Valassis Communications and Spirit SPE HG, a retail landlord.
