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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by tracker1 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:04PM (#22741196)
Wonder if grocery store workers will largely be forced to unionize and fall under similar terms as airline industry with regards to limitations on a strike. "Essential work"
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by whyenot on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:23PM (#22741407)
Aren't many grocery chains already unionized? I believe Safeway, Raleys / Nob Hill, and Albertsons are, at least.
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by toomuchtodo on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:28PM (#22741468)
Yes. It would make sense for existing grocers unions to assist in the efforts of these Whole Foods workers, and eventually expand to Amazon Fulfillment workers (perhaps working with other unions under the AFL-CIO umbrella).

http://www.ufcw.org/grocery/

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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by ken on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:55PM (#22741773)
In the Seattle area, nearly every grocery store (except Whole Foods) employs workers represented by UFCW 21: https://www.ufcw21.org/shop-union
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by junky228 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:54PM (#22741764)
none of those exist in my part of the U.S. I haven't even heard of the last two
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by elicash on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:20PM (#22742728)
Grocery stores and their workers could bargain over these details however they wanted. CBAs look very different from one another.
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by taylodl on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:55PM (#22742471)
They already are unionized - at least in my neck of the woods (Ohio). If the Whole Foods employees are not, well, then that should be their first order of business.
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by tracker1 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:32PM (#22750546)
My understanding is that a lot of their in-store employees are at-will and part time, and largely not covered by the unions... of course companies and states will vary.
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