UNFI Losing Business Over Workers’€™ Strike?

Support OCA’€™s Boycott of UNFI Brand Woodstock Foods!
 
What happens when the largest wholesale distributor of natural and organic foods in the U.S. refuses to play nice with its workers? Business suffers.
 
The latest retail coops to hold United Natural Foods (UNFI) accountable for workers’ rights violations are Olympia Food Co-op and Seattle-based PCC Natural Markets (PCC), the nation’s largest consumer-owned retail grocery chain. Olympia supported workers by refusing to place orders with UNFI for one week, a move that cost UNFI more than $100,000. And last week PCC Natural Markets, the nation’s largest consumer-owned retail grocer, threatened to shift its annual $100 million purchases of organic and natural foods to other wholesalers unless UNFI cleans up its act.
The National Labor Relations Board is currently investigating UNFI for 45 violations of federal labor law. The charges include allegations that UNFI engaged in worker surveillance, intimidation and retaliation, that it refused to bargain in good faith, and that it illegally reassigned bargaining unit work. UNFI workers and drivers at UNFI’€™s Auburn, Wash., distribution center went on strike for better pay and better working conditions Dec. 10, after rejecting UNFI’€™s latest contract offer.
In response, the OCA has called for a national consumer solidarity boycott of UNFI’s private label products, Woodstock Foods. Don’t spend your hard-earned consumer dollars with a company that exploits farmers, farm workers, processing workers, truck drivers, warehouse workers and retail clerks. Boycott Woodstock Foods until UNFI recognizes that organic and Fair Trade practices must go hand in hand!
Read the OCA press release
Learn more here and here
Read the detailed report on labor rights violations by UNFI management
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