Tartine Bakery in San Francisco is holding a series of “mandatory anti-union meetings,” reports Eater. The meetings come after reports that 141 workers at four locations of the bakery have signed a letter declaring their intent to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in hopes of getting better pay and a better balance of power between workers and management.
A Tartine representative sent a statement from founders Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson that reiterates that Tartine is a “union-free workplace” because it already pays competitive wages and has no “underpaid or otherwise exploited workers.”
“There had never been a time where a group came to us and said ‘there’s a serious grievance we have, and we need to talk about fixing it or we feel like we have no other choice but to unionize.’ Nothing even close,” the founders said in the statement. They say the push to unionize comes from a “professional union organizer,” that joined the company only three months ago. Full Story
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