Division of Labor Law Enforcement Department of Industrial Relations v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action brought on behalf of two employees of defendant to recover wages which it was alleged were due them under the provisions of a contract between defendant and the Butchers' Union Local 193 of the Amalgamated Heat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, hereinafter referred to as the “Union.”

For many years prior to June 20, 1946, the defendant, throughout its Los Angeles division, had paid its market managers or head meat cutters a weekly salary which had been fixed by contracts with the union, and had in addition to said…