MERK v. JEWEL FOOD STORES

No. 85 C 7876.

734 F.Supp. 330 (1990)

Kelly MERK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. JEWEL FOOD STORES, DIVISION OF JEWEL COMPANIES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

April 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Formeller, William J. Cremer and Jacqueline A. Criswell, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Max G. Brittain, Jr., Marcia E. Goodman and John J. Murphy, Jr., Kovar Nelson Brittain Sledz & Morris, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


OPINION

POSNER, Circuit Judge (sitting by designation).

This is a class action by employees of Jewel Food Stores, the grocery chain, against the chain, charging that it reduced their wages below the level fixed in the collective bargaining agreement between the company and the union representing the employees. Jewel contends that at the same time it signed the collective bargaining agreement it made an oral side-agreement with the union, a "reopener" agreement...

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