Whole Foods Workers Looking To Unionize

Posted by | November 7, 2014 15:45 | Filed under: Politics Top Stories

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There is a movement among Whole Foods workers in San Francisco to form a union. The company is expanding and increasing revenue as it begins to appeal to lower-income shoppers, but workers aren’t happy.

Whole Foods, despite its bourgeois reputation and popularity with America’s suave liberals does not differ that much from Walmart when it comes to its labor practices. Its CEO John Mackey (pictured) has compared unions to herpes, and said just last year: “Our team members are not being prevented from joining unions, they’ve chosen not to…Why would they want to join a union? … We’re not so much anti-union as beyond unions.”

Wrong you are, John Mackey! There is now an official movement on to unionize at least one Whole Foods store on 4th street in San Francisco. A press release that went out yesterday says that 20 workers held a rally and “initiated a temporary work stoppage to deliver a petition to Whole Foods management demanding a $5 an hour wage increase for all employees and no retaliation against workers for organizing a union.” If they don’t get a satisfactory response by November 14, they say, they will “begin taking job actions.”

Here is the list of demands.

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6 responses to Whole Foods Workers Looking To Unionize

  1. tiredoftea November 7th, 2014 at 16:11

    One of the shining, high profile libertarians in business today whose paternalistic attitudes towards workers had been ignored by his oddly lefty and holier than thou clientele. A truly odd arrangement of convenience. I hope the workers win that vote!

  2. tiredoftea November 7th, 2014 at 17:11

    One of the shining, high profile libertarians in business today whose paternalistic attitudes towards workers had been ignored by his oddly lefty and holier than thou clientele. A truly odd arrangement of convenience. I hope the workers win that vote!

  3. edmeyer_able November 7th, 2014 at 16:36

    Although unions have done some great things for workers I hope the employees do their homework and if they do unionize the select the correct leadership for their store.

  4. edmeyer_able November 7th, 2014 at 17:36

    Although unions have done some great things for workers I hope the employees do their homework and if they do unionize the select the correct leadership for their store.

  5. fancypants November 7th, 2014 at 20:58

    I had no problems while in the UFCW If they can make it happen ? it will benefit all of them

  6. fancypants November 7th, 2014 at 21:58

    I had no problems while in the UFCW If they can make it happen ? it will benefit all of them

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