The Untold History Of Trader Joe's Union-Busting

[@radiationshepherd]

These companies are disgustingly heartless. You're not truly free in this country--you're not even free to spend your time with a loved one if they are literally dying. The most basic ways of humanity are denied to us in the present day

[@Midori_Seabreeze]

Every time I watch one of these videos I realize that I was a victim of union busting at both Target and Starbucks. It’s a shame because I liked working at both of those locations and I’d go back to working for them if they unionized.

[@Scorpiogirl_1029]

To Marilina, I hope you find a better job out there and that your husband gets well. To all of the other co-workers at Trader Joe's or are leaving that place, I wish for you all nothing but the best and hope that a good union comes to your aids.

[@maliksmith9003]

Meanwhile, EVERY politician: I will pretend I didn't hear that.

[@kimberlyw9927]

JJs fire story, is identical to a friend of mine about 7 years ago. She gave someone one flowers because her dog died or something, and got fired for that being her 3ed write up. (The others were bogus too) When she filed for unemployment, they would not grant it to her because she had been “fired”. So, she took TJS to court, the judge found in her favor, that our boss had wrongfully fired her and literally said after hearing the story from both sides that “you fired her because you didn’t like her.” She was then able to collect her unemployment till she found a new job. I don’t think anything happened to management or TJs for their actions. This kind of behavior has been going on for a long time, it’s there go to tactic when they want to get rid of someone.

[@vtorres10109]

And now they are giving their employees 10 dollars an hr increase if they work on Sundays. Paid holidays and 20% discount. Since this whole thing took place. The part that sucks the most are the ones that have been working every single weekend for months on end are now given Sundays off and given to the crew who they choose to work on Sundays. 👀🫢

[@lewa3910]

TJ needs to pay its workers what they're paying union busters

[@leeks1408]

Yeah it’s stupid that they’re willing to waste so much money on these union busting assholes when they can just do the right thing and give it to their employees. These union busting companies need to be taken down as well

[@Freesavh1776]

Y'all go! And keep going! This is not only for y'all, but of course u know it's for everyone else that can get stuck & poked just like y'all did. I wish I had money to help y'all that way, but I don't. I've been fighting for my disability for 5 or 6 years. Idk, time runs rampant, & together anymore. But I will meditate on sending all the positive energy I can muster up. Don't ever let corporation's ever get too much power over you. God bless every single one of you. I love you all.

[@johngarrett8789]

Very sad because for years he employs rated Trader Joe's very highly apparently new manner front came in and there just behaving like Starbucks and Delta and all of these other greedy companies. I don't think the original founder would approve of what's going on with the company he built

[@rosecapone2889]

You lost your insurance because you didn’t work the hours needed, they didn’t take it away from you.

[@Gabby-tt4mf]

Many people anticipate a market crash, but I must stress that it is just speculation. When all of this is over, many people will regret not buying now because a market fall is always a chance to purchase. However, this is my most genuine opinion.

[@delroyjohnson640]

90% of successful investing is controlling your emotions. When market volatility plagues your positions, don’t let this panic you into making a regretful decision by selling. Focus on company growth & execution, and look at drops as a potential opportunity to consolidate.

[@ld5216]

If you worry, you don't have to worry and if you don't worry, you need to worry

[@dustyarne7503]

I always FUD at every little dip until my father in law recommended her financial advisor. she managed my portfolio from $75k to over $290k within 5 months.

[@jillgriffin4274]

@@dustyarne7503 Please I'm fascinated to know who your broker is and how She can be reached?

[@dustyarne7503]

@@jillgriffin4274 My expert is ’’Susan Denise Vargason’’ and you can find her website online if you wish to get in touch with Her. I basically follow her trade pattern and haven't regretted doing so.

[@vivalaleta]

How many burst out crying when Marilina burst out crying? I have a husband I adore and can't imagine how much pressure and pain she is under.

[@mariawesley7583]

Trader Joe's informed me by snail mail that on December 31, 2020 I'd lost my health care. The letter was dated December 21 and arrived during the holidays. As 52 year old with a chronic illness and no insurance I missed some work, one day sitting 12 hours in the ER with no food. I had told the Captain, Reggie Jones, while sobbing of my struggles. When it was time for evaluations he denied my raise because of missed days without a doctor's excuse, keeping me at $14.35/hour after 4 years with the company. I was nowhere near what new hires made and still without healthcare, so I left.

[@TeeeHerNameIs]

So, I was trying to show my friend (a TJ employee) a Netflix doc I saw about TJ’s and how they treat their employees and I’ve been searching high and low for it but haven’t found ANY traces of this documentary. At first I questioned myself about if it even existed but when I stumbled across this video, I know for sure this clip was part of it and it looked familiar. I even remember telling my cousins to watch it. Now I wanna know what happened to it and why it was taken down and disappeared off the internet??

[@atashikokoni]

I like these videos where the channel doesn't simp for the Democrats. Actually focusing on the class struggle is pog

[@The_Last_Pants_Youll_Ever_Wear]

Worked at TJs for over 15 years, can confirm. They are just as heartless as Amazon or Walmart, but since Trader Joe's is private, they don't have to disclose much. The union-busting these crew members experienced is NOT isolated, and Trader Joe's management illegally harasses and union-busts anywhere they can. But custies won't REALLY care about this until they're forced to. Customers sympathize with these kinds of stories, then go right back to shopping and just skip the line of the person who told them the truth. So crew members will be forced to make the public aware of these crimes and transgressions, and win the unwilling public to their side. We'd better get started

[@nancykerrigan]

Having seen this is eye-opening for me. As a "custie" of them I do empathize and wonder of new developments. Unfortunately since food deserts exist it's difficult for some (like myself) to find reasonably priced healthy items to buy and consume.

[@XatxiFly]

A great demonstration that even seemingly left-leaning businesses with hippie aesthetics can be anti-labor. See what happened recently with No Evil Foods too.

[@kavinsky2]

No business that isn't a co-op is leftist.

[@mixedhairless]

Now I know why they sneaked and closed the NYC TJ wine shoppe.. They are poseurs… Feel bad for the workers…

[@bv6447]

I did not know this about trader's joe, wow!

[@set8sun684]

people need to Stop buying their products?

[@Ianpact]

Thank you, MPU.

[@em_yu]

thank you

[@roberto2568]

ALDI ... its just a corporation, ireland here

[@Gunfart01]

They need an INDEPENDENT HUMAN RESOURCES!

[@Puggy42069]

They are counting on workers being idiots and spineless which most are. I have people who want to be apart of a union at work but don’t have the spine to help me out.

[@warrenlouisiana2277]

That’s a win for the workers

[@briezzy365]

They really haven’t even been keeping up with environmentally friendly packaging and fighting appropriation in their food and especially their labeling. It’s a shame to hear this, I hadn’t heard anything bad about them as employers until this.

[@dailyoptions7832]

Wondering when they get to the bargaining process

[@felicetanka]

Even pain and suffering of an illness is a business in the usa.

[@niapatina]

look into williamsburg location next!

[@KatiePaisant]

I felt this way too during the pandemic. It was already a stressful environment. I quit during the pandemic after working there for almost 4 years. The company does NOT give a shit about crew.

[@sleepnomore6065]

Dont they pay $20/hr for cashiers? In Nyc at least. Or WF maybe?

[@MarionJInce]

I’ve stopped shopping at TJ because of their poor treatment of employees.

[@Oiujjn]

Publix krogers heb isn’t really any better

[@donaldlyons17]

Wait why would workers at Trader Joe want a union? Someone please clue me in to that. I can't imagine trying to get a union at BK, MACD, WENDYS etc...

[@redwhiskey1]

Can i just say how proud i am of Shannon for sticking around w a corporation w such a sick corporate identity. No shame at all on all the other fighters, i think i woulda quit, too. But i love it that not only did Shannon stock around to continue receiving the roghts she so bravely fought for, but i bet it REEEEAAAALLLLYYYY sticks in the craw of her bosses that, now, especially since she has the history with them and everyone's STILL talking about it a year later, she practically cannot get fired! Lmfao, and to top it off, the fact that bc of these guys, and shannon, who refuses to leave, even MORE stores are unionizing, just rubs salt in the wounds! That is to say, the bosses who screwed these guys who HAVENT been fired by corporate for ruthlessly doing what corp told them, even so far as to not inform someone who was once one of them stepping down to care of her husband would result in amking it harder w no insurance... thise who werent fired by corporate... i bet they fired all of them, though.

[@LlyleHunter]

I can’t stand shopping there. It’s a very unpleasant environment with a very poor selection

[@daveton9033]

Did you know TJ loosing a lot of Branding in the Coffee selection? Wondering if TJ treat their vendor right ?

[@frankesposito2182]

Hang in there folks .... I know how hard it is...

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

So sad

[@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns]

Yah, shitty company.

[@TikiDragon1]

No audio?

[@josephlucatorto4772]

I had audio just fine

[@AK-47ISTHEWAY]

Whatever device you're watching this on is probably broke. Buy something else

[@carlbowles1808]

This isn't Europe where the government guarantees people a job without providing one. Unions will crush trader Joe's business model by raising prices for shoppers. Trader Joe's crew members where I live are happy and communicate that to me. If you don't like trader Joe's leave, the world doesn't owe you anything.

[@Alan-rw3ez]

So you are concerned about your grocery prices and not fair wages and treatment for businesses. Got it.

[@M4RI4TIGER]

This is worse. Lmao of course they are “happy” and communicate that with you- lmao they would get fired if they communicated otherwise.

[@peterpape7332]

The Hazard pay was not a guaranteed raise, it was an incentive to keep folks working through a difficult time. That's not a wage cut as is being framed. Missing context here but I'd expect nothing less from a union front. Some of the concerns are legit, but not all.

[@20woody11]

All of the concerns are legit.

[@Alan-rw3ez]

The covid pay should be the hourly wage, that is the whole point. Cost of living going up dramatically while people making close to the same as before.

[@peterpape7332]

@@Alan-rw3ez so you want a $4 raise and who eats the difference? Are you not grateful for the doubling of your discount? That doubling offsets inflation if you shop at the store. You go somewhere else, that’s on you. If you really want to pick a fight, let’s talk about the employees who got paid to get vaccinated and the vaccine has come up with next to no benefit. I don’t think that’s fair. But the point of this video is union busting. You don’t like the wages, form your union. Or you can learn from those who have gone before you. It’s your choice.

[@lawrencehan7385]

lmao. why start that position at ppl scrapping by instead of business with record profits

[@Alan-rw3ez]

@@peterpape7332 peter piper the union buster lmao

[@therealpaulallen]

Comment for the algorithm.

[@andrew_6969]

ladiladilolo hwaers this

[@anntrope491]

I ♡ UNIONS !!! ♡☆♡

[@xaza8uhitra4]

How can you take pay away from employees after giving them a raise? JFC

[@eaglechawks3933]

Because it wasn't an actual raise - it was "hazard pay" and when the pandemic hazard ended, so did the pay.

[@20woody11]

@@eaglechawks3933 The pandemic hazard DIDN'T end, however; the company just decided its workers were no longer entitled to such pay. Your disingenuous answer gives away where you stand in the labor/capital debate; my guess is your breath stinks of rubber boots.

[@alexanderwaugh5772]

Yoooooooooooooo!

[@georgeemmons5128]

I get Trader Joes circulars in the mail and I see the price to quantity ratio and I say wow that's slot of money for crumbs and scraps!?

[@Kenobi4488]

that's capitalism for you

[@luchochang]

I’m very disappointed in Trader Joe’s union busting behavior. I shop there quite often and had no idea of these practices. I always thought they were a fair employer.

[@itsnadia3451]

far from fair.

[@iwishyouwould3739]

They are not fair

[@kavinsky2]

Unless a company is a co-op, they are not fair. Stealing the profits generated by workers is never fair.

[@codelessunlimited7701]

Union is like a corporation. When it is too big, it is very difficult to stop. They become the law and order of the nation, they will eat the little ones.

[@beadmecreative9485]

Thanks trader Joe for enlightening us 😂

[@eaglechawks3933]

Funny how NOWHERE in this do they actually tell you what they were making for wages at Trader Joes, or compare it to other chains. Would be nice to know.

[@mathgasm8484]

I asked one said $13 an hour and I work for a non union grocery store with a great rep of treating employees and I get $16.

[@BlueDirt_ProAggressive]

Isn't Traders owned by Bezos?

[@BlueDirt_ProAggressive]

@SphereofChaos 13 hmm that could be.

[@fartpunch3937]

@@BlueDirt_ProAggressive Whole foods is owned by Bezos, TJ's is owned by one of the Aldi Brothers, I believe. Unless he died and the family owns it now, I cannot remember.

[@Xenon-4300]

I think that's pretty common knowledge that when you quit your job you lose your health insurance...

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

I thought she only stepped down from her manager position not actually quit the job.

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Isn't it heinous that it's that way though? This is why we need public healthcare for everyone that is free at the point of service like every other civilized nation has. We manage public Pig departments, public fire departments, public K-12 schools, but we can't manage public healthcare? Nonsense! That's actually funny because the VA healthcare system is massive. Now all they need to do is extend that for the whole country not just the veteran community.

[@giovanniyazloff5404]

And that will be the only store🤣

[@giovanniyazloff5404]

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[@vshah1010]

4:23 This guy has the voice of a girl. f I wasn't looking at the screen, I would believe that is a woman talking. Is he not talking with the right tone? I I suspect he might be part of the LGBT community.

[@ohheyitsnicol]

That’s all you took away from this video?? Seek help.

[@MawcDrums]

this KZbin comment has the voice of an insensitive jerk, if I wasn't looking at the screen I wouldn't believe that someone would say such a stupid thing.

[@vivalaleta]

Shallow af.

[@paulrobak8599]

Pitiful, bro, just pitiful ... go find somewhere else to troll.

[@XatxiFly]

Please keep comments like this to yourself - you may have meant no harm but trans people are already made to feel othered and monitored. The more trans people who get to live in public without having to feel pointed out the easier things will be for the next generation.