Dealer Joe’s Hadley, Massachusetts, retailer turned its first to unionize after staff voted 45 to 31 to kind an impartial union, Dealer Joe’s United.
“This victory is historic, however not a shock,” the union stated in a press release after the votes had been counted. “For the reason that second we introduced our marketing campaign, a majority of the crew has enthusiastically supported our union, and regardless of the corporate’s finest efforts to bust us, our majority has by no means wavered.”
The corporate responded to the vote by saying that it might acknowledge the union and start bargaining. It stated it was “prepared to make use of any present union contract for a multistate grocery firm with shops within the space,” a suggestion the employees rejected.
”We’re going to be negotiating a special contract, particularly for us, that the crew desires to see. We gained’t be taking any boilerplate template contracts,” Maeg Yosef, the union spokeswoman and an 18-year Dealer Joe’s employee, advised the Each day Hampshire Gazette. She famous that the union gained’t be alone in negotiations, saying, it was getting “donated authorized assist, so we gained’t be going it alone, and the authorized group goes to develop at this level, so we’re feeling good on that entrance.”
