Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

Unions, WFM and everything inbetween

We no longer get any (meaningful) gainsharing, stock options disappeared and were never discussed (but ASTLs and above still get Amazon stock), responsibilities have increased dramatically with the elimination of some people and concentration of their duties on existing team members, Core values stopped existing in 2016, and lastly raises are cut to pennies on the dollar to what they once were.

Incentives to staying with WFM are minimal, turnover is high, people don't want to start a union but are concerned they do not have a choice. I don't want a union, had family in them and it was hit or miss at best.

I would like to work for a company that is more realistic with it's expectations (OTS rules of getting all tags and sales change over perfectly done between 10-7am with no extra labor), recognizes and rewards hard work, and reduces this ever present feeling of us (team members) vs them (store leadership and above) in every day interactions.

By the way the reason those morale surveys only had 60% response rate is because we don't believe they are anonymous and don't believe anyone actually cares what's in them beyond using it as a tool to punish ATLs or TLs (who are either hard working/overworked or c-appy).

I know of at least half a dozen experienced 5+ year TMs and above who are actively applying elsewhere, kudos to them for seeing the writing on the wall but it's heartbreaking that a good thing was destroyed.

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Post ID: @OP+V24JK0h

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Why bother? They will just hire union busters again

https://medium.com/@MatthewTHunt/whole-foods-hired-far-right-wing-activist-as-union-buster-dd46bee7c854

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Post ID: @2btw+V24JK0h

Geeze....a bit dramatic.

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Post ID: @1mem+V24JK0h

My stl told me flat out if u want to save your job move up to astl and above. No one is safe under those positions and am a fckng TL. Just to show you that TLs dont have it safe either. Imagine team members. Be safe you all. Its about to get real nasty. TLs will unionize if they keep getting sh--ty wage increases and a lot of work. I feel sorry for those TLs that just moved up.

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Post ID: @sek+V24JK0h

I say bring it! These people do not listen.... they only thing that they know is: free pizza, sunglasses, frisbees etc. The unhappiness is felt on every team (at least in my store). STL team is frazzled. TL's are exhausted. TM's are quickly losing hope. They just don't care. Had there been 1 consistent message with OTS, the system might not have been quite so bad...but, instead there are ever changing standards and demands that are increasingly unrealistic. Yes, I have seen TL's cry in corners as well as visibly upset TM's trying to keep it together.

Yes, perhaps it is time to come together and cause real change.

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Post ID: @jlc+V24JK0h

The “most vulnerable” jobs in stores, the employees said, include department order writers, supervisors, store scanners and customer service positions.

Buyer can be replaced by software people are just holding onto a formerly needed job.

Cashier can be self check out not all but some.

SSS just got bumped back to FT unless they are going to start using robots to scan the aisles so I don’t see how that’s in danger at the moment. Supervisors just page the shifty anyway so what’s the point of them anyway?

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Post ID: @fix+V24JK0h

https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/whole-foods-store-employees-look-unionize

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Post ID: @slg+V24JK0h

Anyone under ASTL isn’t viewed as important. The company needs grunts to function but there is a never ending supply mediocre people to hire. Unfortunately this is the way it works there are the people at the top and then there is everyone else. The only way to change the way things are is of every low level person refused to work and the stores couldn’t open. This will never happen though so it’s best to accept it then get riled up and fight it.

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