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Friday, March 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Brian Cunningham, junior, and Carl Harris, senior, both of Wichita, take time out to enjoy the weather while engaging in intellectual head-to-head combat. Cunningham and Harris played their match outside the Rock Chalk Bar, 618 W. 12th St.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Food Barn Inc. and the union exchanged broadsides yesterday, with the company claiming the union was muddling and the union showing videos of unopened food tossed in store trash bins.
Food Barn war heats up
Union claims anger company
Both sides called press conferences within one hour of each other to refute allegations and state their postures.
The company said that since the strike began March 3, business dropped by 18 percent the first week, and by 20 percent the next week and 3 percent last week.
Frank Delliso, strike coordinator for the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 576, maintained that business at the 47 Food Barn
stores in Missouri and Kansas had plummeted by 67 percent overall.
P. A. Rawalt, Food Barn vice president of human resources, said that it was normal practice to throw away food that had not been sold and that without seeing the video he could not believe whether the amounts were unusual.
"Food Barn is in trouble, and it is troubles of its own making." DeRiso said. "They can't give away groceries, much less sell them."
DeRiso also displayed what he said were photographs of store managers
A videotape, DeRiso said, was taken of seven stores from March 15 through Tuesday. It showed cartons of milk and other packaged foods, along with produce items, in store trash containers.
transporting meat and produce in their unrefrigerated personal cars to Food Barn stores.
Rawait called the union's tacities "distortions and fabrications" that unnecessarily scare and mislead them. When they called the union they were elected to serve."
DeRiso said he did not have an exact number of those who defied the strike. But 1,362 assistance checks had been issued to strikers who had signed a roster at picket lines and had not returned to work, he said.
Company officials said 1,048 employees, about half of the 2,112 workers represented by the union, had crossed picket lines.
"We have no intentions of selling, but if this thing drags on . . . we are prepared to sell stores if we have to," Rawalt said.
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