The union representing employees at REI’s SoHo store in New York City said this week that REI had notified the Union, Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), through its new legal counsel that many workers at the SoHo, New York store would be receiving pay cuts in their next paycheck amid a shakeup of the company’s legal representation at the bargaining table. The change would revert pay for many ReI employees to pre “The Way Forward” levels, which were reportedly won by workers late last year.
The union said in a statement that REI had switched representation to a notorious union-busting firm and setting negotiations back months.
The union wrote in a release, “Last summer, as a result of workers organizing the flagship store, REI introduced ‘The Way Forward,’ a new package of pay and benefits that was extended to workers at every REI store across the country except for the SoHo, New York store. Workers at the store were able to win back the pay raise and improved benefits after they engaged in a walk-out in November. They did so in exchange for an agreement not to strike through June 1, 2023. Despite management’s promise to the unionized workers that the agreement would herald a more productive and harmonious negotiation process, REI went back to their long-held anti-union strategy of glacial bargaining and delayed tactics no sooner than the ink on the agreement had dried. Management has continued to stonewall workers on even relatively simple requests,...
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