Workers at the Filadelphia Hall Foods Market voted on Monday to become the first union store in the Amazon grocery chain, and the E -commerce giant strives to evade labor organizations in which the e -commerce giant organizes in multiple business segments. We opened a new front.
A vast Hall Foods Store employee in the Spring Garden area in the city has voted for 130-100, supporting the organization with United Food and Commercial Worker Union. 。
The store employees said they wanted the union to help negotiations for higher wages. Among the many years of employees who used WHOLE FOODS before purchasing a chain in 2017, when Amazon took over other changes, the reduction of workers' interests and reductions in staffing levels Was stated that it was the cause of dissatisfaction.
However, those who lead the union campaign suggest a larger goal. The chain stimulates the waves of organizationalization as a whole, and in addition to the union drive between the warehouse worker and the Amazon already fighting.
“I'm hoping that others will follow, and it will increase the leverage in the negotiated table,” said Ben Labet, an employee of the organization's Led Filadelphia store. “I have shown to them that it is possible to organize on Amazon.”
Successful bidding to form a union is based on what several workers explain as a threatening campaign from wholesome. They pointed out the enhanced monitoring of employees and the anti -union messaging in the store, as workers were published in an organized effort in the fall.
While Foods is “disappointed” in the statement, the company provides competitive rewards and profits, and “maintains an active working environment at a Philadelphia store. I'm working on it. ”
“This battle is not over, but today's victory is an important step,” said Wendel Young IV, the president of UFCW Local 1776. “We are ready to bring the Hall Foods to the negotiating table to negotiate the fair -based first contract that reflects the needs and priority of workers.”
UFCW LOCAL 1776, which represented by Pennsylvania's food and retail workers, was fired in retaliation due to unchecked labor accusations raised by the Labor Committee earlier this month. I blamed the hole food. The union also accused the union this month except that it was raised by all other workers in the Philadelphia region.
Whole Foods stated that all legal requirements were compliant when communicating with employees and unions. The company has denied retaliation claims, cannot legally change wages during the election process, delayed salaries until after the election, and avoided voting. I claimed that it was delayed.
“The union is not required in the Hall Foods Market,” said the company in a statement prior to the election, adding the rights of employees to make decisions based on information.
Voting in Philadelphia was the latest consequences of organizational workers trying to get a foothold in Amazon's vast operations.
In 2022, workers on Staten were voted for establishing the first Amazon union in the United States. Currently, we are affiliated with the Team Star International Brotherhood. Amazon opposed the results of the election in court and refused to recognize or negotiate with the union. A delivery driver working at a third -party package distribution company that provides services to Amazon has also installed a campaign with team stars.
Last week, Amazon stated that the union has closed all warehouses and logistics in Quebec, a Canadian state, which rays off 1,700 employees among some Amazon workers. 。
Brichen Rogers, Professor of Labor Law at the University of Georger Town University, has been organized in a specific method, in a specific way, with more than 500 Starbucks in the United States, in a specific way. Similar to the union.
In grocery stores and coffee shops, employees are lined up every day, working side by side every day, knowing each other and forming a solidarity network. These dynamics do not always exist in warehouses where workers tend to be constantly monitored.
“I wasn't shocked,” Rogers said.
Ed Dupli, who works at the Hall Foods Store in Philadelphia and is involved in the union campaign there, has contacted workers in other places nationwide who are interested in union. He stated that at least 10 other hole foods have begun to organize.
Washington's new political landscape may bring a hurdle to Philadelphia workers who are trying to negotiate contracts and other stores that may be submitted for union elections. After the Biden administration has accepted the union, Trump is expected to appoint a new NLRB General Adviser, which could be difficult to succeed in the campaign.
Kate Andrias, a professor in the Labor Law and Employment Law of the University of Colombia, avoided the employer who usually exploits the weaknesses of the federal labor law and reaches the first contract with a newly organized employee. He said he was. The company may be encouraged by threatening workers under President Trump, but there may be legal barriers to government organizations and negotiations.
“I think the law is not very advantageous for workers during the Trump administration,” said Andrius. However, she added, “Even in the past when there was a hostile labor committee in the past, workers have succeeded in the union organization.”
