Courtesy of Nicholas Hochstedle, which employs around 45 workers across five locations and a warehouse in Boulder, recently obtained enough signatures from those employees to hold a union election. On September 7, ballots went out by mail to all workers asking just one question: Would they like to be represented by the Local #26 for the purpose of collective bargaining.
"We really just want to be treated with respect and equity in our workplace," Malfer explains."We have expressed to management countless times that we wouldn’t start all this to bankrupt the business we work for, that would just be silly. We literally keep the business running, and yet are exploited and disrespected at every turn for our efforts. Most of us can’t afford to pay rent in the city we live in and barely make enough as full time workers to get by.
Now, he uses his experience to help others through the arduous process of unionizing."My job as the organizer is to help them through this process and teach them how to organize effectively, but as the workforce, they are the union. They organize it themselves," he says.
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