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RWDSU members at six Guitar Center locations recently ratified a new three-year agreement! Importantly for sales associates and repair technicians, the contract maintains the current commission structure – unlike the non-union Guitar Center stores, where commission payouts have been slashed across the company. That’s the union difference!
In March, 20 workers at a brand new H&M store – in downtown NYC in SoHo - joined Local 1102, and they’ve already ratified their first contract, guaranteeing paid time off, sick days, medical coverage, and more. Local 1102 now represents H&M workers at 15 locations throughout Manhattan and Long Island, New York.
Walgreens workers in West Virginia just ratified their 3 year contract. Over 350 workers finally won a discipline timeline so the company can no longer pull them into the office and issue discipline for something that allegedly happened 3 months ago.
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…
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