Workers at Hygienic Service Systems, an industrial laundry, have filed for a union election to be represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789.
The laundry employs about 80 workers ? all of them Latino, most of them young women, said Bernie Hesse, organizing director for Local 789. Workers are frustrated by abusive supervisors, split shifts, and how women are treated if they become pregnant, he said.
The laundry is owned by Crothall Service Group, which has union contracts with UFCW and SEIU in other parts of the country, Hesse said. ?We?re hoping they remain neutral and let the workers decide.?
Adapted from The Union Advocate, the official newspaper of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly. E-mail The Advocate at: advocate@mtn.org
Workers at Hygienic Service Systems, an industrial laundry, have filed for a union election to be represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789.
The laundry employs about 80 workers ? all of them Latino, most of them young women, said Bernie Hesse, organizing director for Local 789. Workers are frustrated by abusive supervisors, split shifts, and how women are treated if they become pregnant, he said.
The laundry is owned by Crothall Service Group, which has union contracts with UFCW and SEIU in other parts of the country, Hesse said. ?We?re hoping they remain neutral and let the workers decide.?
Adapted from The Union Advocate, the official newspaper of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly. E-mail The Advocate at: advocate@mtn.org