The REI Union National Steering Committee held a “board meeting” zoom call with workers from all ten unionized stores across the country. This open union “board meeting” came on the heels of REI’s annual privately held corporate board meeting, which notoriously excludes Co-Op members and workers from participating in a real way. During the call, workers reviewed the company’s union busting practices, and gave a status update on the glacial pace of union contract negotiations. A recording of the event and additional supporting reference documents can be viewed and used by the media here.

REI workers from across the country who have unionized with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) hiked to REI’s national headquarters in Issaquah, Washington, where they delivered their unified national platform to the company and called on management to bargain in good faith at tables outside – bringing bargaining to their literal doorstep.

During the final days of holiday shopping rush, workers at Barnes & Noble who are represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stopped work and walked off the job to protest the company’s failure to return on economic portions of the contract amid their highest sales season. Workers joined by fellow union members and community members in support of their walk-out are demanding the company bargain in good faith…

Members of RWDSU Local 220 who work for Sodus Rehabilitation Center in Sodus, New York recently celebrated the ratification of a new four-year collective bargaining agreement. (Sodus Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home and rehabilitation center in Sodus, New York.)