SAN FRANCISCO — An agreement among grocery chains to share profits during a labor strike violated antitrust laws, a divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
In siding with the state attorney general’s office, which sued the chains for anticompetitive behavior, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said the agreement had an anticompetitive effect, even if it was temporary and intended to counter the unions’ tactic of striking only one chain in hopes of pressuring it to cave.
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