Thinking About Forming A Union? Surprise! Here's A Big Raise.

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/workers-unionizing-get-raises_n_6346f5b2e4b0b7f89f525688

A recent case at pharmacy chain CVS reveals how employers scramble to make workers happy when they're signing union cards.

By Dave Jamieson Oct 12, 2022, 04:35 PM EDT

Workers at a CVS store in Orange County, California, were trying to form a union last year when they got a surprise from their employer. The pharmacy chain had decided to give them substantial raises, boosting their pay as much as 37%.

CVS was doing “market” pay adjustments at many of its stores. But the company earmarked certain locations in California ― an area where the United Food and Commercial Workers union was running an organizing campaign ― for juicier pay bumps than the formula called for, according to hearing transcripts and CVS documents obtained through a public records request.

Workers at Store 9119 in Orange County were among them. They were in the midst of signing union cards to join UFCW Local 324. Unlike most other nonunion workers, they ended up with the higher pay rates that already-unionized stores in the area were receiving, only they got them without having to join the union and pay dues.

“I thought it was a very weird coincidence that it was the exact same number,” one CVS worker recently said of her raise matching the union pay rate. The worker was testifying in a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that referees disputes between unions and employers.

FULL story at link above.

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1. Lots of power in the "threat" of a union.

It trickles down to nonunion workers.

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2. And That Is A Direct Result Of Forming A Union....nt