this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2023
313 points (99.4% liked)

unions

1666 readers
66 users here now

a community focused on union news, info, discussion, etc

Friends:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2397370

Union won elections in four stores, Trader Joe’s continues to union bust, refuse to bargain in good faith. Trader Joe’s threatened and coerced workers, continues to drag feet at bargaining table.

top 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fuck Trader Joes.

Their fucking cheese always molds like two days after you get it home, because they recut it in unsanitary warehouses. And if you do the math, their weird package sizes are consistently a bad deal for the consumer. They are a scam organization. Fucking scabs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The amount of unnecessary packaging is also egregious.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Trader Joe's is the shittiest company. Look it all their unethical food sources in the news. Half that shit looks like rebranded frozen banquet dinners at a premium price that they say is cheap.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

seriously. overrated store, shitty corporation, mid food, awful parking lots lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I’ve never understood the fanaticism some people have with this place. The food they sell as their own is just repackaged stuff you can under a different name with another label most anywhere else.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wtf, I thought TJs was one of the few big companies that wasn’t being a bag of dicks about this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Nah they were being a bag of dicks during the pandemic too. TJ is good for cheap food that tastes good but it's not the bastion of chill dudes like it pretends to be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No they, they've been a bag of dicks about this for years.

I know this and I'm not even American.

They are very anti-union.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, it's not like I can shop there less.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Traitor Joe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not cool, TJ's. Remember who your customers are.

[–] pthaloblue 3 points 1 year ago

They know. All the crunchy stores do. Whole Foods, even before it was owned by Bezos was like that. One time they brought us all to an off site "meeting" on the clock at a nice hotel conference hall to explain why unions were bad.

There's a lotta money in selling "guilt free" products to libs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped shopping there when they shut down the wine store for attempting to unionize.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ALL TJ wine is gone? That was most of the reason to go. 2-buck chuck RIP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yalp. They sell it in some of the wine stores now, but marked up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of hate on here. I generally had decent experience with their product, I don't do their frozen tho.

As for OP, disgusting!!! If this keeps up, will cut them out completely. Issue is there, is no labour friendly food retailers. I guess Costco is known to be decent to staff, but I am sure they are anti union also.

[–] typo 1 points 1 year ago

The Kroger's brand stores in my area are union, and I know they are in Colorado as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

FYI Trader Joe's is run by Aldi Nord

(And that's a different company than Aldi Süd, which runs the ALDI stores we Americans know, they split in the 60's)