Trader Joe’s Workers in Massachusetts File to Form Union as Company Fights Back

  • 📰 truthout
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 36 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 68%

United States News News

United States United States Latest News,United States United States Headlines

Trader Joe’s workers in western Massachusetts have filed to form a union, which could make waves within the supposedly progressive company with over 530 locations and 50,000 employees.

The union effort could also spread to other locations as it comes amid successful union efforts that have galvanized non-union employees at companies like Amazon and Starbucks; in just the past months, Starbucks employees have formed unions at 135 stores, with new wins coming in weekly.

“Our benefits and our pay were just less supportive than they had been previously,” Hadley employee and union organizer. “We saw a lot of changes to our retirement and our health care. We saw our wages not keeping up with increased cost of living and then the pandemic just added to that sense of feeling undervalued and unappreciated.”

Problems like decreasing benefits and increased health and safety concerns were only magnified by the way the company handled the COVID-19 pandemic, workers say. Though the company had offeredand limited the number of customers in the store at once early in the pandemic, these rules were retracted as vaccines became available but the pandemic continued to rage on.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 69. in US

United States United States Latest News, United States United States Headlines