This Week in Worker Conquests: Shoplifting Incident Spurs Crossroads Staff to Unionize, a Victory for WA’s Legislative Workers, and Puerto Rico Takes to the Streets!

The election begins Monday. RS

“Merchandise over safety:” A source at the unionizing Broadway Crossroads Trading Co. store told me a shoplifting incident partly spurred workers to organize. On January 31, the source said, a security guard on duty followed a shoplifting suspect through the store and confronted the person. The suspect allegedly brutally attacked the guard, who ended up in the hospital. The workers filed for a union election the next day, February 1. As my source put it, workers feel as if they’re “expected to prioritize merchandise over our safety.” Their election begins Monday.

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