The one-day strike impacts 11 of the company’s 21 Portland-area grocery stores, but the company said it’s using non-union staff to keep the stores open.
PORTLAND, Ore. — New Seasons Market locations remained open across Portland on Wednesday, but shoppers heading in for last-minute Thanksgiving supplies were greeted by picket lines out front as unionized workers staged a one-day strike to protest what they described as unfair labor practices and inadequate pay offers during contract bargaining.
“We’re out here today to inflict some economic damage and tell the company that they need to be thankful for their workers if they want us to come to work,”
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