Trader Joe’s workers in Minneapolis won their union election by a landslide on Friday, becoming the second location of the popular grocery chain to form a union.
that they’ve been talking about unionizing with Trader Joe’s employees at locations across the country. The fact that Trader Joe’s United has experienced such success as an independent union is groundbreaking.“Our landslide victory shows just how strongly we believe that Crew members from stores across the country can work together to gain the pay, benefits and working conditions we deserve,” thein a statement.
“Together, we’ve asked really basic questions, like, what is a union? And harder questions, like what, in granular and concrete terms, is our long term vision for Trader Joe’s workers?” the union continued. “This story, our story, where everyday folks come together in break rooms and at rallies and form brand new unions and struggle together … will continue to be told, because we will continue to work together for a more equitable future.
Workers say that their requests over the years for provisions like safety reforms and better pay and health care benefits “have really gotten nowhere” with management. The firing of Kimberly Thompson, a 13-year veteran of the store, ultimately pushed workers to go public with their union campaign in June.
Since then, workers say they’ve faced union busting from the company, which, like Starbucks, has hired notorious union-buster Littler Mendelson in response to the union effort. Late last month, just before the Hadley election,that it was giving workers across the country a $10 an hour pay bump on Sundays and holidays — but only in stores that weren’t publicly unionizing.
The company claimed that it was following federal labor laws in announcing the new policy, but workers were skeptical. Indeed, the company’s reasoning was similar to that of Starbucks, which announced a raise only for workers in stores that weren’t unionizing in May. Starbucks also claimed that the policy change fell in line with federal labor laws, but
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