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Salon
Salon
Politics
Jon Skolnik

UNBELIEVABLE: Essential workers were invisible - The Untold Story

The Trader Joe's storefront (Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)

Following a string of successful employee-led organizing campaigns at major corporations like Amazon and Starbucks, a Trader Joe's store in Massachusetts has become the first of the company's locations to form a union. 

The months-long labor effort culminated in an official union election last Thursday, when workers (called "crew members") in Hadley, Massachusetts voted in favor of the move 45 to 31, according to the National Labor Relations Board. 

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