The Lever - Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia voted on Monday
to become the first unionized store in the Amazon-owned grocery chain.
The labor victory is part of a growing effort to organize workers at
multibillionaire Jeff Bezos’s e-commerce conglomerate to fight for
better conditions at Amazon workplaces. Employees
at the Whole Foods store voted in favor of organizing with the United
Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) in order to
negotiate higher wages and better benefits. Longtime employees said
benefit cuts and staffing reductions since Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of the grocery chain in 2017 have led to growing discontent.
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