HUFFINGTON
03.10.13
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BREAD LINE
larger bargaining unit, given that
workers are less likely to know
and support one another.)
“Bakers have a right to criticize our management and seek to
join a union,” the company told
HuffPost. “Bread Of Life also has
its rights in the legal process to
appeal what we sincerely believe
is an inappropriate unit of bakers for union representation. Use
of the established legal process is
not ‘union-busting.’”
In interviews, the bakers all described the process as exhausting
and dispiriting, taking tolls both
financial and emotional.
“At this point in time, I see the
guy’s just throwing a fit because
he doesn’t want a union, and he
goes and spends a bunch of money because he wants to get his
way,” said Jared Miller, 25, who
had taken the job to pay his way
through school. “We didn’t want
extreme things. We wanted, like,
health care. Normal basics.”
“All the money they’ve spent on
this,” Miller added, “it could have
Hand-made
pastries at
a Panera in
Denver, Colo.