Employees of the Whole Foods grocery store in Philadelphia voted to unionize on Monday in a narrow victory.
This is the first union for the Amazon-owned store. It came down to a narrow margin of 130 workers voting to join the United Food and Commercial Workers while 100 voted against it. This union also represents about 835,000 workers from Kroger, Albertsons-Safeway, Giant, Stop & Shop, Raley’s, Piggly Wiggly, and ShopRite.
“By starting a union at Whole Foods, we’ll be able to negotiate contracts that give us higher wages, better schedules, and a fair workload that doesn’t leave us burned out,” the UFCW website reads. “We have seen over recent years that Whole Foods has no problem taking away things like hours and benefits that brought us to work here in the first place. With a union contract, they can’t do that without bargaining with us over those…
