Employees at Verizon stores north of Seattle in Everett and Lynnwood won their union election on Friday, making them the first unionized Verizon stores in the country outside of New York. FOX13
The near-unanimous victory represents the latest in a growing labor movement across the country that includes the unionization of Starbucks stores and the first Amazon warehouse union.
The victory earns workers the right to bargain with Verizon over pay and working conditions. Austin Hitch, a Verizon employee and organizer in the union campaign, said employees want cost-of-living raises and more control of their schedules. Workers voted to be represented by the Communications Workers of America, which has more than 700,000 members nationwide.Verizon stated it "respects our employees’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining … including the right to join or not join labor unions" in a February filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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