Topline
Employees have voted for the successful alliance of Amazon workers in the Staton Island Warehouse and the third -party delivery of Amazon, employees at the entire Amazon -owned Foods Store in Philadelphia. United Food and Commercial Workers Union. This is the first move to unite with full food workers and can be followed because public opinion has voted. Positive toward the unionsAccording to Gallup, last year 2019, 48 % of approval increased to 70 %.
According to Gallup Public, the public opinion has been a supporter of public opinion since pandemic disease 8 speaking about the day about living [+]
Key facts
Hole Foods employees at the City Center Philadelphia Hole Foods Store voted in favor of joining the UFCW Local Chapter 1776 on Monday and now the Union talks on a “fair first contract that reflects workers’ needs and preferences” Ready to talk.
In an email Described to BloombergA spokesman for the entire Foods said that it was disappointed with the election results, but he promised to maintain the “positive environment working in our Fly Center City Store”.
UFCW represents 835,000 grocery store workers at the Krugar, Albertson Safe, and the Stop and Shop and Devs of the Asold Delexes.
Background
In November, employees of Philadelphia Hole Foods filed a union to represent the store’s cashier, butcher, chefs, dishwasher and online completion workers. Claiming the company that pro -employees of the union were “threatened and intimidated” and “spying” the union’s activities, workers earlier this month filed charges with the NLRB. And Three members of the Congress Amazon Chair Jeff Bezos and Hole Foods CEO Jason Bocheel were chased from Philadelphia with a letter expressing concern over counter -unionization efforts and urged them to be union without “interference” See while holding the vote. The company disagrees with such allegations. The preliminary coalition voted for 130 and 230 employees of the store voted against 100.
Amazon Culture has eliminated the entire Foods
According to local Why PBS StationHolefood workers are looking for the least cheap health care benefits with minimal and minimum retirement benefits. He also complained how the madness of Amazon’s work has eliminated the pace of work in the entire food by taking physical and emotional tools on employees. Full Foods workers felt a “additional layer of Constitution” with the company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, which ranked Forbes As the second richest person in the country after Elon Musk. Amazon bought the then 460 store hole foods in 2017 for $ 13.7 billion. After that it has increased to about 500 500 stores.
Important quote
“This victory sends a powerful message to workers everywhere that when we stand together we can also perform and win the biggest corporations. In a statement by UFCW’s International President Mark Peron Said, the entire food and its core company, Amazon, have long resisted the alliance’s efforts, but this election shows that the commitment and unity of the workers may be a victory.
Amazon Workers Union efforts
For some time, Amazon workers have fought with retail giant for better salaries, benefits and work conditions. Safety violations in Amazon warehouses have been made through documents Professional safety and health administration. In the first step of the alliance, about 5,000 workers held the Amazon Labor Union in the Amazon Staton Island warehouse, since then affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Temitters under the IBT. So far no other US warehouses have voted for the alliance, though many The drivers of the third party delivery Have joined the teams. However, next month, 5,000 Amazon workers in North Carolina are ready to vote for the alliance under the Carolina Amazonins United for the United States and empowerment (cause).
The Tamster Union is developing in the new leadership
Tamusters reported the Union membership Raising all over the country. New General President Sean O’Brien and Secretary Treasurer Fred Zuckerman took over the leadership of the Tamaster in March 2022, The number of members of the teammaster union Over the past decade, 57,000 new members have increased by more than 70,000.
Tanjant
Despite being only a united Amazon warehouse state side, workers were organized in a Amazon warehouse in Quebec last year. The company then decided to close the company’s seven Quebec Amazon warehouses, which resulted in the loss of about 2,000 2,000 jobs. Amazon claimed that the decision was made for business reasons and that it had nothing to do with unity efforts. CBC reported The Amazon spokesman said the warehouse closure is in the name of high performance and cost effectiveness. “We have been using a third party career in Quebec for many years. Recommending a good Thirdi third party model will allow us to provide our customers for a long time to provide the same excellent service and even more savings. –
Further advance
Before today President Trump fired According to the Bloomberg law, only two members of the National Labor Relations Board and its General Council and its General Council left only two members. Unless new members are appointed, NLRB cannot decide because the Supreme Court has ruled that the quorum of three members needs to be issued. Jinn Jacobs, joint laborers and employment colleagues with Tarter, Kersky and Drugian Law Firm, jointly, “Although there are important issues in ousting members of NLRB, but at least it ends several months of works. “
Read more
UFCW congratulates Hole Foods Workers on Union’s victory (UFCW release, 1/28/2025)
Philadelphia workers vote full Foods to make first union for Amazon -owned supermarket chain (CNN, 1/28/2025)
The entire Foods store -owned Foods Store in Philadelphia becomes first (New York Post, 1/28/2025)
Center City Hole Foods Workers vote in favor of unity (Why, 1/28/2025)
Labor Union (Gallup Pool, 8/2024)
Trump’s new administration effect on labor unions through Jane Jacobs (HR.com, 12/23/2024)
