Rite Aid Workers Fight for a Union

Democracy Now by Angel Warner, Ken Silverstein, Amy Goodman | Jun. 25, 2009 (Special Report)

(Video) Ahead of congressional debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA, we take a look at a long struggle of over 600 Rite Aid workers in California to form a union. The workers are based in Lancaster, California, at the Southwest distribution center for the nation’s third largest drugstore. After a two-year struggle, a majority of Rite Aid workers at the site voted to join the International Longshore Workers Local 26. The story has gained national ... Full Story »

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The first person stories from trying to organize a union at Rite-aid in the presence of union busting tactics provides information pertinent to the attempts to protect union organizing with the Emloyee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Such labor stories are extremely rare in the big corporate press.

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