Trader Joe’s Staff Petition to Unionize in N.Y., Extending Wave

Trader Joe’s workers have petitioned to unionize a New York City grocery store, extending a current wave of organizing on the firm and inside the broader US retail trade.

Employees at a Brooklyn retailer filed Friday for a unionization election, in accordance to the docket of the National Labor Relations Board. Workers are searching for to be part of Trader Joe’s United, the identical fledgling, unbiased group that prevailed in elections this summer time in Massachusetts and Minneapolis, creating the primary union foothold among the many firm’s over 500 shops. The Brooklyn website employs round 185 employees, in accordance to the docket.

The firm, owned by Germany’s Albrecht …