Workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so amid a broader unionization push across the country.
FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2016, file photo, shows a sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square. Workers at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Lansing, Mich., voted overwhelmingly on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 to form a union with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, making it the first of the restaurant chains 3,000 locations to organize. –
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, “voted overwhelmingly" Thursday to form a union with the Teamsters. The workers “are forming a union to improve their work schedules, increase wages, and gain the respect from management that they’ve rightfully earned," the unionNewport Beach, California-based Chipotle said in a statement Friday it is “disappointed that the employees at our Lansing, MI restaurant chose to have a third party speak on their behalf because we continue to believe that working directly together is best for our employees.
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