Post by rmarks1 on May 12, 2019 19:37:21 GMT -5
What a relief that this store's workers aren't being exploited by evil Capitalists.
Bob
It’s not all kumbaya and kombucha at the Park Slope Food Coop — where life under its socialist-tinged grocery store is apparently so oppressive that the paid workers are trying to unionize.
Employees of the Brooklyn food collective recently alleged unfair labor practices by the co-op in a filing with the US National Labor Relations Board.
In response, the crunchy-granola collective’s iron-fisted management threatened and punished those who support the effort — with one union-busting boss telling workers they “should have a backup plan” if their collective bargaining doesn’t bear fruit, according to a copy of the labor complaint filed by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...
Sources at the store said managers don’t want a union because that would prove the co-op isn’t the socialist paradise it purports to be.
The co-op — which a former member once described as “something between an earthy-crunchy health food haven and a Soviet-style reeducation camp” — is famous for its lefty politics.
nypost.com/2019/05/12/workers-at-soviet-style-park-slope-food-coop-fighting-for-union/
Employees of the Brooklyn food collective recently alleged unfair labor practices by the co-op in a filing with the US National Labor Relations Board.
In response, the crunchy-granola collective’s iron-fisted management threatened and punished those who support the effort — with one union-busting boss telling workers they “should have a backup plan” if their collective bargaining doesn’t bear fruit, according to a copy of the labor complaint filed by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union...
Sources at the store said managers don’t want a union because that would prove the co-op isn’t the socialist paradise it purports to be.
The co-op — which a former member once described as “something between an earthy-crunchy health food haven and a Soviet-style reeducation camp” — is famous for its lefty politics.
nypost.com/2019/05/12/workers-at-soviet-style-park-slope-food-coop-fighting-for-union/
Bob