Author: Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

In late January, workers at Whole Foods in Philadelphia voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1776. Now, the Amazon-owned grocery store is calling on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), to nullify the election, claiming the election results still need to be certified by a regional director, which Whole Foods says can’t lawfully be done since the agency currently does not have a third board member in Washington, DC. President Trump illegally fired Board Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox after taking office in January.

In late November, President-elect Trump announced his intent to nominate outgoing Oregon Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor. Chavez-DeRemer is a one-term Congresswoman from Oregon, the daughter of a Teamsters’ union member and the co-owner of a string of medical clinics along with her husband.