Panera Bread union members to protest Friday
KALAMAZOO, MI – Kalamazoo Panera Bread employees, who were the first Panera workers in the country to form a union, are planning a protest on Friday.
The employees have waited more than a year to begin meeting with their franchise employer to discuss wages and health insurance policies but have seen no such bargaining table because their case is on hold indefinitely.
In January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that President Barack Obama overreached his constitutional authority when making recess appointments of three partisan candidates to the National Labor Relations Board in Noel Canning v. NLRB. Without the appointments, the NLRB lacks quorum to decide any cases.
The employees plan to protest “the hold up of nominations to the National Labor Relations Board,” which they say is resulting in workplace retaliation for people involved in the union at their workplace.
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