From Portland Jobs with Justice:
Join us in welcoming the young, upstart new union, the Fried Egg Workers Union, F.E.W.U! Around May Day of this year, the community of workers at Portland breakfast staple, Fried Egg I'm in Love, submitted union authorization cards to the NLRB to seek a formal election! (Update: the union election will be held on May 28th & 29th!)
As described in Eater PDX, "Fried Egg Workers Union, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, noted that their main goals in unionizing were to protect the rights workers have already established within the company, and to give employees more of a voice in the 'internal decision-making process.'" This union effort is notable in that the workers decided to proactively organize, rather than reactively -- for instance, in response to a workplace issue. "Living in Portland, with Doughnut Workers [United], the Burgerville union, with these successful models of food worker unions, we thought we could do it, too.” Love to hear it!
Tune in to hear more about their union journey on It Could Happen Here Pod. Support their GoFundMe to help them get on their way. Follow @friedeggwu on insta/x/tiktok!
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