A union push has begun at Jeff Bezos’s Whole Foods.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

“Workers at the Whole Foods in Spring Garden are taking steps to unionize, frustrated by the working conditions and wages that leave them feeling they can’t even afford to shop in the store where they work.

They join a wave of organizing efforts by pockets of workers at large retail companies, including Whole Foods parent company Amazon, where distribution-center workers have called for better working conditions and some have initiated unionizing campaigns in recent years.

The Spring Garden store’s organizing workers on Friday filed a formal petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board. Their petition said the union would include 300 employees.

Whole Foods is ‘making billions of dollars in profits, and they’re not paying us a living wage,’ said Ben Lovett, who has worked at the store since March 2023 and makes an hourly wage of around $16.80.”

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