Union Avoidance at Sid’s Market (Case)
Sid’s Market is an upscale supermarket that caters to a clientele living in the prosperous suburbs of Chicago’s North Shore. Although most of the supermarkets in the Chicago area are unionized, Sid’s market has been able to avoid unions by matching unionized markets’ pay and benefits. Sid Clark, founder and owner of Sid’s, has told store manager Lee Shaw that one of her top priorities should be discouraging union organization at the market. Clark is convinced that if the store is unionized, it will lose its “family” environment and become a bureaucratic, impersonal market like the other major food chains in Chicago.
Recently, Shaw became aware that the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union is attempting to organize Sid’s market. In trying to discourage the UFCW, she took the following actions to implement Sid’s union avoidance strategy:
A few weeks after these four incidents, Shaw received a letter from the National Labor Relations Board indicating that the UFCW had accused Sid’s market of engaging in unfair labor practices designed to prevent employees from forming a union.
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