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New Seasons Market Hires The Same Union-Busting Firm Donald Trump Used to Fight Workers At His Las Vegas Hotels

December 08, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Willamette Week
By Katie Shepherd
December 6, 2017

Facing a unionizing drive by its grocery workers, New Seasons Market has hired a divisive "union avoidance" firm that has worked nationwide to quash labor movements at companies like American Apparel, Conway Freight, and the Hilton at Los Angeles Airport.

It's the same firm that President Donald Trump hired last year in an attempt to quash union organizing at his Las Vegas hotels- a fact that has given new ammunition to New Seasons union organizers.

Read the full article at the Willamette Week website here.