Good for them, sounds like they approached it constructively and it's helping.
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I've been extremely impressed with Costco as a customer and it was great reading how they responded to it, with self awareness and self criticism.
“We’re not disappointed in our employees; we’re disappointed in ourselves as managers and leaders,” “The fact that a majority of Norfolk employees felt that they wanted or needed a union constitutes a failure on our part.”
While this is certainly a better response than the typical overtly anti union stuff, it still betrays a misunderstanding of the necessity of a union. Workers need and deserve fair representation whether their employer is abusing them or not.
exactly, sad to admit it got past my conscious
I feel like the CDS folks (the people giving away food samples) need to unionize. The fact that they're working at Costco but not working directly for Costco sets off my exploitation spidey-sense.
I don't think this one is a red flag in itself. There are tons of people that go to places to work at, but not for. Specifically retail, there's infrastructure, IT, vendors, security, merchandisers, people doing inventory, etc. Of course stores could hire people to do these things, but they could also be employed by another company that specializes in that thing.
With that said, they're workers. Of course they're being exploited...
They don't mean failure to meet employee standards or wishes...they mean failure to manipulate their employees into not joining a union
I've always heard pretty good things about working at Costco. As long as I can remember they've always paid their employees more and had better benefits that other large retailers. I doubt a lot of other costcos will go union.
These workers don't realize they are shooting themselves in the foot.