Trader Joe’s is latest retailer to face union push

June 8, 2022

Associates working at a Trader Joe’s in western Massachusetts are the first at the chain to file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. “Over the past however many years, changes have been happening without our consent,” said Maeg Yosef, a worker at the store. “We wanted to be in charge of the whole process, to be our own union. So we decided to go independent.”

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