Costco has a reputation for treating workers well and compensating fairly, union or not.
That said, it’s still great news for those workers as they have greater assurance and say on their working conditions and no longer need to rely on the goodwill of Costco’s management because who knows if or when financial headwinds will change their practices.
Yeah, some of the upper echelon even got chewed out and threatened to never raise the price of a hot dog. While I see them as a company that treats their employees well, and customers fairly, I do see the C-suite and their teams generally as capable of changing all that to squeeze out more money.
That said, time will tell; if they don’t pull a starbucks and start closing down businesses, then they aren’t anti-union. Then again, unlike Starbucks, Costco typically buys the land and builds massive warehouses… that cant normally be said for Starbucks’s investment in their stores; they typically rent in a shopping center.
Costco has a reputation for treating workers well and compensating fairly, union or not.
That said, it’s still great news for those workers as they have greater assurance and say on their working conditions and no longer need to rely on the goodwill of Costco’s management because who knows if or when financial headwinds will change their practices.
Yeah, some of the upper echelon even got chewed out and threatened to never raise the price of a hot dog. While I see them as a company that treats their employees well, and customers fairly, I do see the C-suite and their teams generally as capable of changing all that to squeeze out more money.
That said, time will tell; if they don’t pull a starbucks and start closing down businesses, then they aren’t anti-union. Then again, unlike Starbucks, Costco typically buys the land and builds massive warehouses… that cant normally be said for Starbucks’s investment in their stores; they typically rent in a shopping center.
Only because Price Club was already unionized and CostCo didn’t want it spreading to other stores when they merged in the 90s.
It’s always been the threat of unionization keeping CostCo a decent job.
Unionization has always been a boon to all workers, in and outside the union.