Workers at a Target store in Christiansburg, Virginia, have filed for a union election and, if successful, the store would be the first store belonging to the giant retail chain to unionize in the US.
Target has long opposed unionization within its stores, with anti-union videos to discourage workers from unionizing, and earlier this year Target training documents for managers to prevent unionization within stores were leaked.
Target has already reportedly pushed back on the union organizing effort in Virginia, trying to use union dues as a tactic to deter workers from supporting the union.
But workers at Target are seeking to capitalize on a surging energy in the US labor movement after recent union victories at dozens of Starbucks stores and the first Amazon warehouse in the US.
The last union election to be held at a Target store in the US was on Long Island, New York in 2011, where workers voted 137 to 85 against unionizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers.
An administrative law judge ruled in 2012 that during the union organizing campaign at that store, Target violated labor law by interrogating and threatening workers over their unionizing efforts and the union election results were overturned by the National Labor Relations Board in 2013, but the UFCW opted against rerunning the election due to long delays.
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