Maybe it's just me, but the Berkeley Bowl management's unwillingness to accept their worker's desire to unionize is a little mystifying. Anyway, I just received the following email (and cannot in any way vouch for the accuracy of the claims made in it)
__________________________________
The Berkeley Bowl workers will be voting on October
30th on whether to unionize or not. Management will
be intensifying their anti-union campaign over the
next couple of weeks. They have already broken
numerous laws: including firing 2 pro-union workers,
spying on workers, threatening to close the store, and
interrogating workers about their stance on the union.
There have also been various attempts to bribe
workers to make them vote against the union, including
changing benefits packages and giving raises. Most
recently Berkeley Bowl has hired a human
resources/business partner with skills in union
avoidance and has told workers that they aren't to
talk to co-workers or customers about the union while
they are on the clock.
Action...
When: This Sunday October 12th from 2pm-6pm
Where: In front of Berkeley Bowl, 2020 Oregon St
Why: Worker's need your support and encouragement
We will be in front of the store from 2pm-6pm with
ballons and flyers to pass out information to
customers and allow them to share their support quite
visibly with Berkeley Bowl workers. Even if you can
only make it for a small amount of time, please stop
by and show your support for the workers in the midst
of their struggle.
For more info feel free to email us at
BerkeleyBowlUnion@yahoo.com
and stay posted to San Farncisco Indymedia for updates
http://www.indybay.org
Solidarity Forever - Berkeley Bowl workers
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If I were in town, I'd agitate for the union. As anyone who shops at the bowl knows, with the crap those workers have to deal with, they deserve collective bargaining rights.
Posted by peterme at October 9, 2003 04:06 PM | TrackBacki have been boycotting Berkeley Bowl for management's failure to recognize the worker's union for quite a few months now. I have talked to management, who spewed anti-union rhetoric.
NOT a very progressive workplace. For alternatives to the Bowl (kick the habit! Support workers!), I suggest The Box (organic produce & limited grocery delivery), Safeway (a union shop), Farmer's Markets, and Tokyo Fish Market (a family-run business in the true sense of the word, not what The Bowl purports to be).
I have told The Bowl that if they recognize the union & bargain in good faith, all will be forgiven by me. I used to spend $100 week there. Their loss!
Posted by: dani at October 9, 2003 06:10 PMmy sibling works at the bowl and told me within the last month that "something" would be happening within a month. Sounds about right on target.
I've been boycotting also - all summer. we missed mango season, oh, i'm getting emotional now... :)
i'm making do with The Box, The Natural Grocery Company, Williams and Trader Joes.
oh, mangoes...manilla mangoes...
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