My medical profits!

Yeah, a wholesome progressive company. Rainbow flags everywhere. Cute character branding. And then they slash hours while we’re doing record business and make people rush through moving tons of freight on icy floors and around puddles and wet floors from improperly calibrated cooling units, and then shake their heads and tsk-tsk us when injuries pile up. “Make sure to stretch!”. I’ve worked shitty fast food places that were managed more humanely.

Hell yeah, Thank you!

We have been instructed to take notes about everything, and plan on doing that. I think our state requires consent for recording, so I’ll suggest making sure we get their refusal to be recorded on record. I’ve been punished for following their verbal instructions, and then had them plead ignorance when I stood up for myself several times at this point. They have also shown a wreckless disregard for labor laws so we want to be prepared for shenanigans.

One of our first meetings was doing list work and mapping the store. Thanks to the employee who was recently fired we are pretty far ahead, and we are citing their firing as an example of why we need a union. We are encouraging them to file a ULP, but they are a bit burnt out from all this and they were planning on quitting before the union drive started. Only hung around to help out with that, so there might not be much motivation to take action. According to the organizers we are working with, they have 6 months to file, so we’ll see. After how they’ve treated us I don’t want to show them any grace and will never trust them to behave like a decent people again.

Thank you!

It’s long overdue.

I’ve been reading news articles and researching other co-ops that unionized, and the complaints staff had are almost completely identical. Using their “locally owned, friendly co-op” marketing while the upper management abuses staff. All adopting the same worker hostile policies while upper management lines their pockets. They must be getting the same advice from the national grocery co-op or something. It’s kind of depressing what a scam these places can turn out to be.

Amazing. Do managers for these places all attend training on how to be abusive when they get hired?

It probably won’t be long until we publically announce the union.

But I thought everyone loved the Cheneys!?!?