Catalina Gonella at The Gothamist reports a vote against Unionization at a Trader Joe’s location on the Lower East Side earlier this year was undermined by managers who violated Federal Labor Laws by discouraging Workers to join, according to a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) Manhattan Office.  Supervisors at the grocery store required Employees to attend one-on-one meetings where they were discouraged from supporting the Trader Joe’s United Union, an independent Union formed in 2022, the complaint said.  Managers also maintained a rule banning Union literature in the break room and removed anything they found, according to the complaint.  It also accused managers of telling Workers that a Strike disrupting their shifts was inevitable and that a Union could not have protected them from poor working conditions, like an apparent sewer leak in the store.

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