Workers start union push at Trader Joe's in western Massachusetts

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Workers start union push at Trader Joe's in western Massachusetts
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Employees are seeking to unionize at a Trader Joe's grocery store in western Massachusetts:

filed paperwork with federal labor regulators to hold a union election.

Maeg Yosef, a union organizer who’s worked for 18 years at the Hadley store, said the company has cut contributions to employee retirement plans — from the equivalent of 15% of an employee’s annual pay down to nothing — since she started there. “That’s a ripe situation for organizing, any time you take away benefits and employees feel a loss of control,” O’Brien said.

“I understand that there are some legal steps that those Crew who want to hold a vote need to follow before it can occur, and they control the timing,” the manager’s note said. “You have my promise that we will not delay this process in any way.

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