Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 18, 1993 TAG: 9303180131
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A11 EDITION: METRO
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IN BUSINESS
Judge won't recant ruling in Elliot caseU.S. District Judge James Turk has denied a union's motion to reconsider his ruling in a complex labor case involving the Davis H. Elliot Co. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has appealed the case to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Turk said in December that Elliot, a Botetourt County electrical contractor, was not bound by arbitration last year. IBEW Local 637 said Elliot had breached a union contract when it canceled a longstanding hiring agreement in August. Employees never voted for a union, although the IBEW had a hiring agreement with Elliot.
Terry Yellig, lawyer for the union, has argued that an arbitration panel, not Turk, should have decided the case.
Bayard Harris, lawyer for Elliot, said at a February hearing that the company concurred in Turk's ruling against the union. - Staff report \
Dominion to close Kroger branches
Dominion Bank confirmed Wednesday that five Money Market branches inside Western Virginia Kroger supermarkets will close. The branch banks will close at the end of June, along with a Dominion office in downtown Roanoke.
The branch offices were eliminated following a study of duplicate branches by First Union National Bank of Virginia, which acquired Dominion Bankshares Corp. on March 1. The study resulted in 23 closings statewide out of the 26 branches in the study, a spokeswoman said. The other offices affected are in other parts of Virginia.
The Money Markets slated for elimination are at Lakeside, Tanglewood and Cave Spring shopping centers and in Vinton and Blacksburg. The sixth branch is in the municipal parking garage at Church Avenue and First Street S.W. - Staff report
\ CompuAdd closing its 110 retail stores
CompuAdd Computer Corp. said it will close its 110 retail computer stores by the end of the year. The company has a store at Townside Festival shopping center in Roanoke.
The company, which began in 1982 as a catalog operation, will continue its direct-marketing business, said spokesman John Pope.
Pope said employees will be given details on the closings by Friday, but he could not yet say when the Roanoke store will shut. About 600 workers are employed at the stores.
Pope said the Austin, Texas-based company had considered becoming a more aggressive competitor at the retail level by opening larger stores, but decided costs of that plan would be better applied to its direct-sales business. - Staff report
\ LaVogue closing at Tanglewood Mall
Clerks at LaVogue by Seiferts in Tanglewood Mall put up a "Goodbye La Vogue" sign this week, announcing the store will close at the end of April.
Shops in Charlottesville, Harrisonburg and Chesterfield County near Richmond also will close by the end of next month. The Christiansburg store will remain open.
Moe Blumes, president of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, company, will be president and chief officer of a new investor group that is buying 106 LaVogue stores.
The company closed 70 stores in 1991. It had stores at Valley View and Tanglewood malls, closed both, then reopened at Tanglewood. - Staff report