A lawyer for the union says the company is aligning itself with right-wing ideologues who want to destroy the regulatory state.
Trader Joe’s is facing a litany of union-busting charges before the National Labor Relations Board. The agency’s prosecutors have accused the company of illegally retaliating against workers, firing a union supporter and spreading false information in an effort to chill an organizing campaign.
But in a hearing last Tuesday, the grocer’s attorney briefly summarized a sweeping defense it intends to mount against the charges: The labor board itself, which was created during the New Deal and has refereed private-sector collective bargaining for nearly 90 years, is “unconstitutional.”
The argument would appear to fit inside a broader conservative effort to dismantle the regulatory state, which has taken aim at agencies tasked with enforcing laws to protect workers, consumers and the environment.
The exchange, a transcript of which HuffPost obtained through a public records request, came at the start of a trial to determine whether Trader Joe’s violated workers’ rights. Trader Joe’s’ attorney, Christopher Murphy of the law firm Morgan Lewis, informed the judge, Charles Muhl, that there was “one final thing” the grocery chain wanted to add to its defense before proceedings began.
TL;DR boycott TJ’s
I don’t go a lot to TJ but I thought they were one of the good guys. So sad to see that there are not a lot of good options
I believe they were one of the good guys, but the owner or founder passed away a few years ago, so it’s not what it used to be anymore.
It’s an easy boycott for me. Too dang much plastic packaging. Besides we have a decent co-op closer to my house.
This is the way.
I hope their employees are able to organize around this.
Best I can do is refuse to shop there anymore.
These idiots want to return to the days of mob justice.
Anyone else know where I can get tempeh for cheap?
What are my remaining options of grocery store, that is social neutral at least? Wegmans?
Winco is employee owned.
WinCo is awesome.
Stop, Civilian! Are you angry!? Because this is the time to be angry! A lovecraftian entity of regulatory capture is attacking one of our only tools of respite against them! The vacuous beasts aim to swallow us whole.
Lol wow. TJ’s just moved themselves from my “avoid if possible” list to my “do not patronize ever” list.
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Isn’t trader Joe’s woke? Thought they were all on board with progressivism? Not American, only vaguely aware of their reputation.
There are no “woke” companies in America. Just one’s who believe that messaging and coming off that way would be financially lucrative. At the end of the day, they’re still companies in a capitalist country, and are just chasing the capital.
Patagonia is based in the US isn’t it?
The company which used forced Uyghur labor and other sweatshops?
IF there’s any contenders for “woke” “company”, it’ll be a workers coop. All other companies run on exploitation.
Patagonia moved production out of the region after that came to light didn’t they? Maybe just pr, but still notable.
What coops are producing consumer goods these days?
Your understanding of their reputation is correct.
Yeah, i mean, i dunno how this - anti-union-monsterification - happened, but they can kiss my organic vegan fair-trade ass goodbye.
If you don’t buy it out of the hands of a farmer not working for a corporation, it’s gonna be a capitalist.
