Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is one subject that has traditionally ranked Coop officials, it is the controversial effort by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1445 to bring a union into the cooperative. That effort has apparently been side-tracked for the time being. But although the UFCW has announced that it is withdrawing its petition for a scheduled union election, the whole affair has left a legacy of bitterness and animosity between store management and union organizers...
...nearly ten years, there have been sporadic rumblings about unionizing at the Coop. But not until two summers ago did things really start to heat up. In August 1980, UFCW officials, with several Coop employees, quietly began a serious campaign to bring a union into the store, in order to represent the more than 500 non-managerial workers. The union cited poor wages and an unfair promotions policy as the primary grievances...
...effort was largely behind the scenes, until January 19, 1980, when the UFCW organizers announced that a majority of employees at all six Coop branches had signed authorization cards requesting union representation. Rather than go through months of litigation before the National Labor Relations Board over the petition, Coop management and union officials agreed to hold an election to determine whether the UFCW had the right to represent Coop workers. The two sides haggled over details, and a date was set: March...
...this is not to say that the store management was happy about the union. It wasn't, and it was prepared to fight it. Coop employees received a barrage of anti-union literature, and management vigorously--vociferously, say union organizers now--argued against the union in sessions with employees...
Their efforts seemed to pay off, because on the appointed date, Coop employees rejected the proposed union by a lopsided 273-156 margin...