A Logan Square grocery co-op illegally fired two workers and disciplined others who participated in walkouts at the store, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled Thursday.
Kanaan Rogers outside the Dill Pickle Food Co-Op, 2746 N. Milwaukee Ave., on April 7, 2023. An administrative law judge with the NLRB ruled that the co-op illegally fired Rogers and another worker who had participated in walkouts.
Kanaan Rogers, 21, was one of the two co-op staff members Amchan ruled was fired illegally by the Dill Pickle last spring. Rogers worked as a facilities assistant at the store, cleaning, stocking shelves and sometimes working at the cash register. Amchan found that Rogers was illegally fired in April 2022 in part because of his participation in one of the walkouts.
“The were filed by our old bargaining union, the IWW, which is no longer our union. They were voted out by our current staff right now,” McCarthy said. “Management and our new union are actively working with one another right now to try and mitigate some of the issues that we have had in the past, and it’s been a very good relationship thus far.”
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