Posted on 11/09/2021 11:59:20 PM PST by blueplum
...Labor action has surged in many industries over the past two years, including in bookselling, a business where unions had been rare. Since 2020, employees have unionized or are attempting to do so everywhere from Printed Matter in New York City to Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle and Bookshop Santa Cruz in California. In Minnesota, workers at four Half Price Books stores have announced plans to affiliate with locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
"I think COVID-19 was a rude awakening for bookstore workers, and really anyone who works with the public,” says Owen Hill, a buyer at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California, which unionized earlier this year....
...But when workers organize, even the most progressive-minded owners might object....
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It’s the Leftist buchs.
Tie the commies to their actions.
Not so new. Powell’s Books in Portland OR has been union since 1999 (International Longshore and Warehouse Union).
This’ll finish off independent bookstores unless they succeed in also selling stuff with better margins.
Note to booksellers: But you’ve got far bigger problems than labor. So much of the stuff being published now is crap. I haven’t bought a new book in months. I can’t recall ever going so long without buying a new book.
“the unions, having succeeded in chasing big business offshore over the years, are now bottom feeding on discount book store employees while everyone’s distracted with emotion politics”
Yep, I give our unions FULL CREDIT for sending our manufacturing base to China and other countries. I’m old enough to remember how they continually brought our industry to its knees and really gave our industries no choice in the matter. If they weren’t shutting down, they were slowing down, way down (they called it ‘working to the rule’). Just not worth the trouble when there were plenty of countries overseas that didn’t put up with that crap. And don’t even start me on their political ‘donations’.
And why are there still unions anyway? We have OHSA, for starters, who can shut down anyone at will, and then we have the tort system which allows class action suits for businesses that manage to deceive OHSA. And then there are even criminal laws to protect workers.
But don’t worry, I’m sure our resident union apologist will have something to say here.
Labor unions == communism in your community.
and now the unions are going on strike.. with a pro union president.. things that make you go ummmmm
Ironically, used bookstores have way better profit margins than big business. I’m sure Moe’s books can afford to raise wages since they pay 10 cents on the dollar or less for their inventory.
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