Employees at REI’s Berkeley, CA, location voted to become the chain’s second unionized store. Earlier this year, REI’s store in Manhattan unionized.
REI said in a statement on its website, “Over the past few weeks, employees at our Berkeley, California store participated in a mail-in ballot election to determine whether they would be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5. The initial vote tally in the Berkeley election is 56 votes for union representation and 38 votes against. As we have said throughout this process, REI believes in the right of every employee to vote for or against union representation. We fully supported the vote process in Berkeley and will continue to support our employees going forward.”
Votes over unionizing have also taken place over the last year at some Starbucks, Amazon and Apple locations.
