Harris Teeter’s top executives are warning the grocer’s employees about unions after its acquisition by Kroger Co., a supermarket company whose workforce is largely represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
“Unfortunately, it appears the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) is trying to take advantage of the merger to gain new members,” wrote Frederick Morganthall II, Harris Teeter president, and Rodney Antolock, executive vice president, in a letter sent to the company’s 25,300 employees on Friday.
“We do not believe that an outside third party with its own agenda, like a union, coming between us, is in your best interest,” the executives wrote.
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