The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is asking the judge in the A&P bankruptcy case to disallow the acquisition of a Waldbaums by a non-union operator because it would mean a loss of union jobs, Supermarket News reported yesterday. In a letter Tuesday to Judge Robert D. Drain, counsel for UFCW Local 342 asked that the store, located in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., not be sold to Best Yet Market because it “apparently does not intend to hire union employees.” Counsel suggested that the store be sold instead to another bidder who has already submitted an offer “[and] who the union believes will retain the union employees. Surely the livelihoods of the workers should be factored in to any decision.” Accompanying the filing were approximately 80 letters from union members and residents of the Westhampton Beach community asking the judge to allow the store to be sold to a company that will retain the union.
