A sequence of 4 coffee shops in Ann Arbor is approaching to close and lay off a newly unionized baristas, according to a news news by WXYZ-TV.
Baristas during Mighty Good Coffee contend they approaching to negotiate a contract with a association after they shaped a Washtenaw Area Coffee Workers Association in Oct after a former worker indicted a sequence of racial discrimination. Instead, they perceived a notice a week ago about a layoffs and closures, according to WXYZ.
The association’s members protested outward one of a shops on Tuesday.
The 4 locations — Main Street, South University, Jefferson and Arbor Hills — are expected to tighten Apr 19 May 5, Jun 15 and Aug. 31, respectively.
An worker during one of a shops told a Free Press that a owners was not available. An email sent to Might Good Coffee government went unanswered. The company’s website does not mention closures.
The company’s counsel could not be reached.
A letter, performed by WXYZ, that was sent to a kinship settled that a owners felt a knowledge of using a business was “overly stressful” and became an “unworkable weight on their attribute and their family.”
The kinship filed an astray labor family assign on Apr 8 by a National Labor Relations Board. According to NLRB, a kinship indicted Mighty Good Coffee of “repudiation/modification of contract.”
According to WXYZ, non-union employees are expected to still work on a roasting operation of a business.
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