Employees at a Trader Joe's in Hadley have filed to hold a union election. If the vote is successful, it will create the first union in the nationwide chain.
, as the pandemic worsened working conditions for service workers. Maeg Yosef, a crew member and union organizer at the Hadley store, said the unionizations at Starbucks partly inspired the push for a union at the Trader Joe's location.
Yosef said concerns about health and safety along with changes in health care and retirement benefits motivated the unionization campaign. Crew members were also required to work more hours a week to maintain health insurance, from around 20 to 30. Yosef, who is currently recovering from COVID-19, said pandemic restrictions were robust at the beginning of the pandemic but were lifted"as soon as possible," causing concern among employees about health and safety.The first push for a union at the store happened earlier in the pandemic, Yosef said.
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