Legal Opinion
United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 328, Afl-Cio v. Almac's Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 24, 1996No. 96-1010PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This ease raises an important issue at the intersection of federal bankruptcy law and federal labor policy. Almac’s, Inc., a New England grocery store chain that employed over 3000 people petitioned in 1993 for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq. Over the objection of the union representing the employees, the bankruptcy court, in a series of emergency interim orders, allowed the debtor to reduce the employees’ wages by nine to fifteen percent for almost a year. The employees claim to have lost over $9,630,000 in wages, but…
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