Guitar Center Hires Professional Union-Buster To Discourage Employees From Unionizing

Last year, Vanessa Pettit and many of her colleagues at the Guitar Center store in Independence, Missouri, declared their intention to unionize. The workers had read articles online about a labor group, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, that was organizing other Guitar Center stores in New York and Chicago. They had some meetings with the union. They wanted in.

Once workers signed union authorization cards and submitted them to management, the atmosphere in the store quickly changed, according to Pettit. With a union election now looming, the laid-back relationship they previously had with management suddenly got rigid. Supervisors no longer hung out with rank-and-file store employees outside of… Read more…

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