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‘A GAME CHANGING DECISION’: WHY LOUISVILLE TRADER JOE’S
EMPLOYEES VOTED TO UNIONIZE  
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Ana Rocio Alvarez Brinez
January 27, 2023
Louisville Courier Journal
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_ The first Trader Joe’s location in the South affiliated with
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Employees at the only Trader Joe's store in Louisville voted in favor
of organizing Thursday evening, becoming the third location of the
national grocery chain to form a union.

The store's workers will now be a part of the Trader Joe's United, the
guild for employees across the country. The employees who voted in
favor of unionizing won their vote 48-36, a release said, after taking
action to do so in September.

"We are so excited to be the first Trader Joe’s location affiliated
with Trader Joe’s United in the south. It’s a game changing
decision that will contribute massively to the modern labor movement,"
Connor Hovey, an employee of the store and union organizer, told The
Courier Journal.

A request for comment sent to Trader Joe's corporate Thursday night
was not immediately returned. Union supporters had accused the company
of "documented anti-union activity" leading up to the vote, sharing a
HuffPost article
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that included images of flyers posted in the store's breakroom that
the supporters said had been put up at the store beforehand in an
attempt to scare off employees considering voting in favor.

Hovey, who has worked in the store for four years, said the employees
want to negotiate better salaries and benefit packages, along with an
accountability system and a more effective time-off system. But he
said they are "excited" to hear what people in the store think should
be proposed.

"We proved that we can defy the odds against a national chain that has
experienced legal teams at the helm," Hovey said.

A "national chain of neighborhood grocery stores,"
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in 1967 in Pasadena, California, and now has more than 500 locations
across the country
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Louisville's store opened in 2011, Business First reported at the
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Employees at two other Trader Joe's locations – one in
Massachusetts, one in Minnesota – voted last year in favor of
unionizing.

Union leaders will join company officials at the bargaining table next
week on Tuesday and Wednesday, the release said.

The vote by employees at the local Trader Joe's store, a key tenant of
the Shelbyville Road Plaza at 4600 Shelbyville Road, marks the latest
unionization effort in Louisville. Workers at four Starbucks coffee
shops in Louisville have voted in favor of forming a union within the
past year, along with Sunergos Coffee
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_Reach Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez at [email protected]._

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