(based on a report from Huff Post) By 8 to 5, workers at a Subway location in Bloomsbury, N.J., on Friday voted in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
One (pro union) worker said: “I am very relieved the election is over and very proud of my co-workers for hanging tough during the past three months of the campaign,” “The company threw many roadblocks in front of us and hired an anti-union professional to scare us to vote ‘no,’ but we overcame this and were victorious.”
Anne LeZotte, a spokeswoman for the firm owning the franchise, said, “We would simply like to reiterate that we value all of our team members and appreciate their hard work and commitment to serving our customers.”
Pilot Flying J, owner of the shop, is the family business of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R). Haslam was the culprit accused by the United Auto Workers union of spreading false rumors to influence workers to reject a union at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga .
A group of Subway sandwich makers just proved that it isn’t impossible for fast food workers to unionize.