Another regional restaurant chain is making headlines for employee attempts to unionize: W. Va.-based Tudor’s Biscuit World, with approximately 90 locations, is pushing back on a group of employees from one store in Elkview, W. Va. that is demanding to be recognized as a union.
The group of restaurant workers is working with United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 (a regional union representing retail, food, healthcare and food processing workers) and has just filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, according to local news reports.
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According to UFCW, a majority of the restaurant’s workers — about 25 people — have signed union authorization cards. When representatives from the group of workers tried to meet with Tudor's management in Sissonville, W. Va., UFCW claims that management called the police on the workers for trespassing. The would-be union is demanding
higher wages, better working conditions, and more stringent COVID-19 safety procedures.
“We are being treated like dirt, like expendable work machines,” Cynthia Nicholson, a Tudor’s employee and Local 400 member said in a press release. “When I returned to work after taking time off for medical leave, they cut my pay from $9.75 to $9.00/hour. They promise you a raise and you never see it. When they transfer you to a different location, they say they’ll compensate you for the...
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