REI Union workers have today launched a boycott against the co-op, which sells outdoor leisure gear, in protest against its “bad faith bargaining”.
Timed to disrupt REI Co-op’s anniversary sale, which takes place through May 25, the boycott follows recent negotiations that ended on 30 April, in Chicago.
The union claims that REI “failed to offer a single proposal until the final day of bargaining, and failed to send its own vice president of labor relations, or any key decision-maker, to the table”.
Campaigners hit out at “outlandish, bad faith proposals” from the co-op, including a moratorium on the REI Union’s organising activity, which would prevent it from supporting workers at other REI stores hoping to unionise for the duration of the contract.
The union is also critical of a non-disparagement agreement which, they say, would “prevent REI Union members from speaking up about working conditions or anything that could be perceived as negative about the co-op, effectively silencing them”.
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