The Amazon-owned grocery store brand says it's 'disappointed' in the employees' plan to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
The vote marks the first successful organizing effort at Whole Foods since Amazon acquired the grocer for $13.7 billion in 2017.
Whole Foods workers in a Pennsylvania store vote to form the first union under Amazon ownership, joining a local chapter of the UFCW.
Workers voted 130-100 for union representation at the Center City in Philadelphia, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philly have voted to unionize, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the chain.
Some 300 workers at an Amazon-owned Whole Foods store in Philadelphia have voted to unionize, mirroring a pro-union shift in public opinion, according to Gallup.
It came down to 130 voting to join the United Food and Commercial Workers and 100 voted against. Union workers come from Kroger, Albertsons-Safeway, and others.
Workers at a Pennsylvania Whole Foods store voted on Monday to unionize, forming the first union in the organic grocery chain owned by Amazon.
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted in favor of union representation Monday, marking the Texas-based and Amazon-owned grocer's very first union. "Despite a tsunami of illegal union busting tactics, lies, intimidation, surveillance, workers persevered and won," workers wrote on Instagram after the results were revealed.
Workers at a flagship Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania voted to unionize and become the first union in the grocery chain's history.
located on 2101 Pennsylvania Avenue in Philadelphia, cast 130 votes — or about 57% of the ballots cast — in favor of joining a local chapter of The United Food and Commercial Workers ...