Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philly have voted to unionize, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the chain.
Workers at a flagship Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania voted to unionize and become the first union in the grocery chain's history.
Whole Foods workers at the Spring Garden store have expressed frustration about low pay and want better health-care benefits.
The Philadelphia Whole Foods store is the first to successfully unionize since Amazon acquired the supermarket chain for $13.7 billion. A prior unionization effort at a Whole Foods store in Madison, Wisconsin, succeeded in 2002 but was dissolved by employees the following year.
Employees at the Philadelphia store cast 130 votes ... According to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the election, 100 workers rejected the motion. “This fight is far ...
This came soon after President Trump fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo. As reported here, the firing of GC Abruzzo was expected and has been held to be lawful in various Circuit Courts. However,
Whole Foods said it was "disappointed" by the vote but "committed to maintaining a positive working environment"
President Trump fired acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Democrat Gwynne Wilcox late Monday night, she told Axios. He also fired the general counsel of the labor board, Jennifer Abruzzo,
U.S. President Donald Trump has fired two Democratic officials at the National Labor Relations Board, a major shakeup that will bring hundreds of cases accusing companies of unlawful labor practices to a standstill and paves the way for Republican control of the agency.
After the National Labor Relations Board rejected a bid by approximately 50 postdoctoral fellows to join Brown’s postdoc union, the fellows are now asking Brown to ensure they receive the same pay and benefits as their unionized colleagues. In a Dec. 20 ...