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  • Grocery union fails in bid for Fresh & Easy price tags

    09/01/2012 10:27:51 AM PDT · by SmithL · 24 replies
    Contra Costa Times ^ | 9/1/12 | Eric Hartley Los Angeles Daily News
    A union effort to attack the nonunion Fresh & Easy grocery chain by forcing it to put price tags on each individual item, instead of using shelf tags, has fallen short again, with an appeals court ordering the plaintiffs to pay the company's legal costs. Grocery workers' unions have battled the chain for years, picketing stores, producing attack literature and funding efforts to organize employees. Two years ago, they found a new battleground: price tags. Saying Fresh & Easy violated a little-known California law that requires a "clearly readable price" on 85 percent of packaged goods, three union officials sued...