![]() ![]() About an hour to two hours after my shift, I had been notified by my manager that all of his bosses had told him to terminate me,” said the worker. “After that I just continued with my day-to-day activities. While they were stocking refrigerated products, they were confronted by one of the corporate-level managers – who has descended on the store since the union election petition was filed in late September– who criticized the company’s inventory system that often delivered products to the store they had no room to stock. The worker said they were covering a shift on 8 October when they were not originally scheduled. They requested to remain anonymous for fear of risking other job prospects. ![]() Yet a handful of workers at a Dollar General store in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, are pushing to change that, with a union election scheduled for 22 October to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).įive workers at the store are currently eligible to vote in the election, as a sixth employee was abruptly fired just a day before a 9 October cut-off to be eligible. All that business generates dizzying revenue too: the company reported $33.7bn in sales last fiscal year.Ĭurrently, none of the thousands of Dollar General retail stores are unionized, as the company is aggressively opposed to unions with a company philosophy of remaining “union free”. The company’s rapid footprint is continuing to grow, as a staggering nearly one out of every three retail stores opening in America this year is now a Dollar General.
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