Three former Ralphs executives are suing the grocery chain and its parent, alleging that the companies wrongfully terminated and scapegoated them after the bitter 2003-04 Southern California supermarket strike and lockout.
The suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, comes after the trio -- Patrick McGowan, a former Ralphs regional vice president, and Scott Drew and Karen Montoya, former zone managers -- were acquitted in June of fraud and conspiracy in a scheme to rehire locked-out workers using fake Social Security numbers during the strike.
