(Company) Choosing to be union

Jeff Brown, CEO of Brown's Super Stores, owns 11 ShopRites across the Philadelphia region. (Photo: Michael Pronzato / Staff) Michael Pronzato


http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/jobs/INQ_Jobbing_Supermarket_Choosing-to-be-union-ShopRite-Jeff-Brown.html

Jane M. Von Bergen, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015, 5:55 PM

Anyone reading the newspaper would assume that unions and management can't possibly get along and that the worst thing that could happen to any business would be for it to have a unionized workforce. Yet, when Jeffrey Brown founded his 11-store chain of ShopRite supermarkets, "I chose to be union." Here's why:

"Well, I was coming from my dad’s business that was unionized," Brown, founder of Brown's Super Stores Inc., which operates supermarkets in and around Philadelphia, told me during our interview, published in Sunday's Inquirer. "I was accustomed to operating that way. I guess one side of union that’s not really advertised is the employees are sort of guaranteed a certain level of compensation, because they’re going to have someone experienced to negotiate for them. I think if you’re going to work in this business, you’ve got a better job if you’re working in a unionized store.

Question: You mean your employees will do a better job?

Answer: No. The employee has a better proposition with health insurance and there’s somebody bargaining for them.

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