People are fed up': Dollar General workers push to unionize amid hostility from above

[Jilly_in_VA]

The low-cost retailer Dollar General has the highest number of store locations in America, with over 17,600 stores in 46 states, and its golden and black logo has become ubiquitous across the country.

The company’s rapid footprint is continuing to grow, as a staggering nearly one out of every three retail stores opening in America this year is now a Dollar General. All that business generates dizzying revenue too: the company reported $33.7bn in sales last fiscal year.

Currently, none of the thousands of Dollar General retail stores are unionized, as the company is aggressively opposed to unions with a company philosophy of remaining “union free”. Yet a handful of workers at a Dollar General store in Barkhamsted, Connecticut, are pushing to change that, with a union election scheduled for 22 October to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).

Five workers at the store are currently eligible to vote in the election, as a sixth employee was abruptly fired just a day before a 9 October cut-off to be eligible. They requested to remain anonymous for fear of risking other job prospects.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/19/dollar-general-employees-union-drive-workers

[BannonsLiver]

1. Dollar General is the 7th Circle of Hell

Every time I darken the door of one I’m reminded how ugly America and Americans can be. Can’t imagine what kind of horror show it must be to work there.

[Aristus]

2. Just another ring in the self-perpetuating spiral of enforced poverty.

American workers earn so little that they can rarely afford to shop anywhere but a Dollar store. And the Dollar store owners are resolutely opposed to paying their workers enough to live on.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. A problem from hell

People don't make enough to not shop there - so people shop there.
The employees don't make enough to shop anywhere but there.
The company makes money.

They are more insidious than Wal Mart.

BTW- I don't shop there. Never ever.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I don't shop here period. They downsized the portions by ridiculous amounts so what you think

you are getting is NOT a decent amount of goods for the dollar spent. Go elsewhere, they're ripping you off. Pay a little more elsewhere and get the portions that you pay for. I know that some shop there because they can't afford to go elsewhere but you're short changing yourself w/ smaller portions.