Barnes & Noble Workers at Manhattan Store Want to Unionize

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(Bloomberg) -- Workers at a New York City Barnes & Noble store are petitioning to unionize, expanding nascent organizing efforts at the longtime non-union chain.

Employees at the four-story Manhattan book store, located on Union Square, filed a petition on Friday with the US National Labor Relations Board in order to hold a unionization election. They say a majority of their coworkers have signed up to join the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, which is an affiliate of the United Food & Commercial Workers union, or UFCW.

Last week, staff at a Massachusetts Barnes & Noble location petitioned to join a local UFCW union there. A group of New Jersey-based employees of Barnes & Noble Education Inc., a separate company spun off in 2015, also filed for a unionization election with the RWDSU earlier this month. The labor board has scheduled a vote there for May 12.

“We respect the decision some of our employees have made to seek to unionize and look forward to engaging with them,” Barnes & Noble said in an emailed statement Friday. The company, which was acquired in 2019 by Elliott Advisors UK, has said it operates around 600 bookstores. Barnes & Noble Education has not responded to inquiries about the organizing campaign there.

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