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If successful, the group could become the first of 500 Trader Joe’s locations to unionize.

If successful, the group could become the first of 500 Trader Joe’s locations to unionize.

None of the chains more than 500 stores has union representation.

Despite a local following, the Lubbock and Wolfforth area is not getting a Trader Joes. That could change with enough support.

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) Three months after increasing thank-you pay for its employees, Trader Joe’s will slash the extra pay by half. The pay was temporarily raised by $4 for hourly workers in February. Now $2 is being taken away. That was quite a bump in hourly wages in February. Hourly workers do not usually see $4 per hour increases in pay. Since the pandemic has entered a new phase with the availability of vaccines for those who want them, the hourly workers will be thanked a litt...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Trader Joes increased thank you pay to $4 in February. Now it wants to cut that by half. FacebookTwitterEmail Trader Joes told its crew members that it plans to reduce its $4 "thank you" pay by half.Diane Macdonald/Moment Editorial/Getty Images Just months after Trader Joe’s announced that it would temporarily increase its “thank you” pay to hourly crew members to $4, the grocery chain is purportedly cutting that bonus by half. "After only three mont...

Trader Joe’s temporary raises pay nationwide in response to Seattle pay-hike mandate Updated Feb 04, 2021; Posted Feb 04, 2021 An employee disinfects shopping carts at Trader Joes in North Brunswick. The grocery chain is not allowing any shoppers in without a face mask. Friday, Apr. 10, 2020. Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Trader Joe’s has recognized the “outstanding, inspiring” work of its crew members since the onset of the pandemic. A statement update on its websit...

Trader Joes hikes hazard pay for its U.S. workers, but theres a catch By Kate Gibson Grocery stores closing over "hazard pay" A Seattle law requiring large grocery stores to pay their frontline workers an extra four bucks an hour takes effect as of Wednesday, and Trader Joes, for one, is opting to extend the additional cash beyond the city to pay its workers more nationwide. But the temporary wage bump comes with a catch: The supermarket chain is also canceling midyear raise...