Workers at Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square vote to unionize, continuing trend

NEW YORK –

Workers on the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan’s Union Square, one of many retail chain’s signature shops and residential to its company workplaces, have voted to unionize.

They be a part of workers at a handful of different Barnes & Noble shops within the Northeast who’ve affiliated with unions in latest weeks, following a wave of union exercise over the previous few years at impartial booksellers.

The Union Square workers are actually a part of the the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which additionally represents staff at McNally Jackson, Greenlight Bookstore and different independents.

In an announcement Wednesday, the RWDSU cited points on the Union Square retailer starting from office harassment to “unstable scheduling practices” and “favoritism by management.”

“Together, with their colleagues in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and just across the water in Brooklyn, Barnes & Noble workers in Union Square have sent a message all across the nation — the bookstore industry can and must treat workers with dignity and respect,” RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum mentioned in an announcement.

“Workers at this store not only organized and won their union voice, but they did so with management literally above their heads in the corporate headquarters, which is housed just above the store in the same building.”

Barnes & Noble issued a quick assertion saying, “We look forward to the new contract with the Union Square Booksellers.”