Tony’s fresh market workers vote so as not to unionize

Dive short:

• The workers for the food chain in the Chicago Tony area did it on Tony’s fresh market voted not to join Food and commercial workers Local 881, according to the National Council for Labor Relations.
• The elections saw 1,115 workers to vote against becoming part of the union and 605 voting in favor of the accession of the work group.
• The organizers sought to convince the workers to a trade union in response to what the Local 881 UFCW described as “disturbing management practices” by Tony’s leadership.

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The elections, which took place last week, followed the claims by the Union that Tony’s fresh market treat workers unfairly Through practices such as Doling Out, it is inegitable, denying waste leave and using “fear and intimidation” to control workers.

The Local 881 UFCW also said before the vote that the workers’ efforts to convince the employees to support the trade union have caused Tony to harass the employees through tactics, such as pressing them not to vote in the elections.

In a Declaration issued after electionUFCW 881 said that the decision of the workers not to join the union came from the “anti-syndical campaign of fear, lies and intimidation of Tony, who illegally intervened with the rights of the workers to a correct choice”, adding that he intends to submit accusations of unfair work with NLRB.

“While today’s results were not the ones that hundreds of workers wanted, the 881 premises will continue to help them fight for a fair and safe job and will stay with them as long as it will be needed to win the dignity and justice it deserves,” said Local President 881, Steven Powell, on Friday.

However, Tony’s fresh market has greeted the elections as a sign that management and rank and file workers are well understood.

“The decision of the members of the fresh team of Tony Market from our Chicago stores to vote against the trade union representation reflects the strong relationships we have built with our employees and our continuous commitment to encourage a job in which they can prosper – with competitive salaries, packages of strong benefits, professional opportunities,” of the chain in a statement.

Tony, who became part of the Grocers heritage group In 2022, he said he offers “extremely competitive salaries in accordance with industry standards” and offers all his associates with holiday benefits. Tony’s has almost two dozen shops in the Chicago region.

“We appreciate the confidence that our members place in us and we are dedicated to continue to serve the communities in which we operate and make Tony’s fresh market to work with the members of our team,” added the spokesman.

No employee lost his job as a result of their efforts to request unionization, according to the company. The company added that “comply with all applicable laws and work regulations in its stores.”

The decision of Tony’s workers not to join the Local 881 UFCW 881 follows a January vote of employees from a Whole Foods market store for Philadelphia for Join -a another Local UFCWA movement that made the store the first union location in the chain owned by Amazon. Whole Foods opposed the vote and asked NLRB to “set aside” the results of the elections due to what they said were Union efforts for interferes with the voting process.