Posts Tagged: UFCW/RWDSU Local 108

UFCW/RWDSU members rallied to show support for Rivervue assisted living workers as they fight for a fair contact.

Over the weekend, dozens of UFCW/RWDSU members and other community activists came to Tuckahoe, New York, to rally in support of workers at The Fountains at Rivervue, an assisted living facility. Rivervue workers are demanding a fair contract and calling on management to bargain in good faith. Workers are also protesting management demanding that employees pay more money into an unaffordable health care plan. Members from UFCW/RWDSU Locals 108, 262, 338, 670, and 1102, along with members from UFCW Local 1500, marched in front of the facility and chanted their support for the Rivervue workers.

New RWDSU members from Subway in New Jersey

Workers at a Subway location in Bloomsbury, N.J., have voted in favor of joining UFCW/RWDSU Local 108. Workers were concerned about irregular wage increases, job security, and having a voice in the workplace.

“I am very relieved the election is over and very proud of my co-workers for hanging tough during the past three months of the campaign,” said Ashley Sprouse. “The company threw many roadblocks in front of us and hired an anti-union professional to scare us to vote ‘no,’ but we overcame this and were victorious.”

The 13 workers are employed by the Tennessee-based travel center company Pilot Flying J, but they all work inside the company’s Subway franchise at the rest stop. Pilot Flying J bills itself as “the largest non-traditional franchisee of the Subway brand,” with more than 150 locations at its travel plazas throughout North America.

In February, a group of cashiers, gas pump attendants, and maintenance workers at the same Pilot Flying J travel center in Bloomsbury voted in favor of joining the UFCW/RWDSU. After those employees voted to join RWDSU, workers at the Subway shop reached out to the union about getting a union voice on the job.

According to NLRB records, Pilot Flying J disputed the bargaining unit for the Subway shop, claiming that certain workers should be classified as supervisors ineligible for the union. The labor board ultimately ruled against the company, allowing the election to proceed.