Macy’s and Macy’s Furniture Galleries Bargaining Update
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Our Union Bargaining Team met with Macy’s Management for the third time on Wednesday, March 25. We made progress on cleaning up throughout the contract and continued to work through Macy’s proposals to:
Increasing minimum hours for Flex Colleagues
Allow them to assign Key Days to Flex Colleagues
Putting new restrictions on the ability of associates to apply for departmental transfers.
The union continued to reject these proposals, and held firm to our proposal to require Macy’s managers and asset protection agents to inform union members of their right to representation, language interpreters if requested, and advance notice for investigatory meetings where discipline or termination could result. To show them what Macy’s workers have go through with these aggressive “asset protection” employees, we presented them with a number of examples where Colleagues were denied accommodations, held past their shift times, and pressured to sign statements that the colleagues hadn’t written themselves!
We are looking forward to continuing discussions on these crucial workplace protections and providing management with economic proposals during our 3 consecutive days of bargaining April 14, 15, & 16- where the Employer will be joining us in-person (instead of video conferencing).
Our Union Bargaining Team: Preston McInnis, Macy’s Southcenter; Ismahan Osman, Macy’s Southcenter; Curtice Bryant, Macy’s Southcenter; Samantha Wilson, Macy’s Bellingham; Jill Jackson, Macy’s Furniture Gallery Southcenter; Emily Hunter, Macy’s Alderwood; Daniel Landon, Macy’s Alderwood
