Burgerville opposes union, but Bernie Sanders supports it

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At a Salem Armory rally May 10, supporters of the Burgerville Workers Union met — and got support from — Bernie Sanders. (Photo via the Burgerville Workers Union Facebook page)
At a Salem Armory rally May 10, supporters of the Burgerville Workers Union met — and got support from — Bernie Sanders. (Photo via the Burgerville Workers Union Facebook page)

On May 6, a letter went out to Burgerville workers with their paychecks: CEO Jeff Harvey is worried that a union effort would disrupt the low-wage company’s “special culture.”

The letter is full of standard anti-union boilerplate about interference from “outsiders.” [Read the whole sordid thing here.] Harvey seems unaware that the Burgerville Workers Union, launched April 26 in Portland, is a grassroots effort by workers themselves.

But on May 10, the campaign got a boost from presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who issued a statement of support: “I applaud the workers of Burgerville in Oregon for forming a union. … The Burgerville Workers Union is a perfect example of the type of political revolution that we need,” Sanders said.

Burgerville worker Mark Medina spoke at a May 10 Sanders rally in Salem.


MORE: Keep up with the Burgerville Workers Union campaign on the group’s Facebook page.

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