Workers start union push at Trader Joe's in Massachusetts
Employees are seeking to unionize at a Trader Joe's grocery store in western Massachusetts, joining a nationwide surge of labor organizing among retail
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Employees are seeking to unionize at a Trader Joe's grocery store in western Massachusetts, joining a nationwide surge of labor organizing among retail
(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 little less, apparently. Back in March 2020, Trader Joe’s gave its employees an additional $2 per hour...
Skip to main content Currently Reading Trader Joe's increased 'thank you' pay to $4 in February. Now it wants to cut that by half. FacebookTwitterEmail Trader Joe's 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 months, the company announced that on May 1st they will take away our additional two dollars, and we...
Texas man tried to enter Trader Joe's near McKinney earlier this week He and his two daughters were not wearing masks at the time he was shopping Man is seen on viral video demanding to be let in after claiming a 'disability' Employees said he could enter maskless but one of his kids needed to have mask Man is then seen on video launching into anti-mask tirade against employees ‘You're violating the law...harassing me and discriminating against me,' he says He then barges into supermarket with his two children while wearing no mask Man then berates Trader Joe's employee who ap...
Trader Joe’s reinstates NYC employee after highly publicized firing Ben Bonnema, the NYC Trader Joe’s employee who was fired last week after raising concerns with the grocer’s CEO over workplace COVID-19 safety protocols, is headed back to work on Monday. Trader Joe’s offered to reinstate Bonnema to his former position at its Upper West Side location on Wednesday night, the Daily Beast reports. Bonnema was first fired from Trader Joe’s on February 26 after sending a letter to company CEO Dan Bane outlining steps that the company should take to upgrade store safety during the pandemi...