Guitar Center Workers Launch Union Effort Under Bain Ownership

[Teamster Jeff]

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"Guitar Center workers are doing more work, and they're getting paid less for it," said Hampson, an assistant manager at the retailer's Brooklyn location.

Citing what they describe as deteriorating working conditions, Hampson and other dissatisfied Guitar Center workers in New York City are in the midst of a unionization effort. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), a powerful labor union in the metro area, recently filed an election petition involving the retailer's flagship store in Manhattan.

Although Guitar Center has fended off unionization efforts in the past, the latest campaign appears formidable. The union has acquired election authorization signatures from roughly 80 percent of workers in the expected bargaining unit in New York. According to RWDSU, Guitar Center has hired the well-known and pricey union-avoidance firm Jackson Lewis.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/guitar-center-bain-union_n_3154828.html?1366904471

[PETRUS]

1. K&R

[mike_c]

2. the rat bastard management will pay big bucks to defeat organizing...

...but won't pay their workers a decent wage, which would make them less likely to feel the need to organize.

[madaboutharry]

3. Guitarist don't shop there.

That tells you something.

[Sherman A1]

4. K&R