Trader Joe's Store in Western Mass Files for Union Election, Citing Slashes in Pay and Benefits
If successful, the group could become the first of 500 Trader Joe’s locations to unionize.
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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 chain's more than 500 stores has union representation.
Despite a local following, the Lubbock and Wolfforth area is not getting a Trader Joe's. 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 little less, apparently. Back in March 2020, Trader Joe’s gave its employees an additional $2 per hour...