United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local No. 1496 ex rel. Morton v. D & A Supermarkets, Inc.

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

Employees of D & A Supermarkets, Inc. (“D & A”) went on strike on November 11, 1980, after D & A and the employees’ union, United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 1496 (“Local 1496”), failed to agree on a collective bargaining agreement to replace one which had expired on June 1, 1980. D & A hired replacement employees. The striking workers concurrently made demands for payment of accrued vacation *167pay and wages. Local 1496 instituted legal proceedings on behalf of several employees, alleging that D & A’s payments of accrued vacation pay and wages owed were…