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Union Seeking to Reorganize at Woodman’s

Workers at a Woodman’s Food Market will vote next week on whether to recover the union representation it lost earlier this year.

Jon Springer, Executive Editor

December 2, 2009

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JON SPRINGER

JANESVILLE, Wis. — Workers at a Woodman’s Food Market here will vote next week on whether to recover the union representation it lost earlier this year.

The attempt at reorganizing is a provision of a private settlement struck between Woodman’s and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1473 earlier this year to decertify the union at four Woodman’s stores and dismiss various charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

The vote next week will decide whether workers at only the Janesville store would organize, according to Irv Gottschalk, NLRB’s regional director in Milwaukee. A majority of the votes cast among 250 workers eligible to vote will decide the matter, he said.

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About the Author

Jon Springer

Executive Editor

Jon Springer is executive editor of Winsight Grocery Business with responsibility for leading its digital news team. Jon has more than 20 years of experience covering consumer business and retail in New York, including more than 14 years at the Retail/Financial desk at Supermarket News. His previous experience includes covering consumer markets for KPMG’s Insiders; the U.S. beverage industry for Beverage Spectrum; and he was a Senior Editor covering commercial real estate and retail for the International Council of Shopping Centers. Jon began his career as a sports reporter and features editor for the Cecil Whig, a daily newspaper in Elkton, Md. Jon is also the author of two books on baseball. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Journalism from the University of Delaware. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his family.

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