Investigative
Board Packets Reveal What is Generating Financial Problems at Seward
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The underlying issues at Seward are related to the fumbled expansion and opening of the Friendship Store and the Co-op Creamery.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/author/helena-gunderson/)
The underlying issues at Seward are related to the fumbled expansion and opening of the Friendship Store and the Co-op Creamery.
The mismanagement that has led to financial losses is disproportionately affecting workers on the floor.
Internal documents reveal that Seward is struggling to meet its own sales projections while habitually understaffing.
On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Seward Co-op Board of Directors voted unanimously to remove Workday Minnesota editor and now former Seward board director Filiberto Nolasco Gomez from the board.
They’re focusing on me but they’re ignoring the fact that these workers are really upset. It’s an organization that doesn’t want to acknowledge how bad things are for workers.
“Tension at Seward Co-op’s May board meeting arose between board members and co-op owners ultimately leaving some owners feeling frustrated and uninformed.”
Fateh’s campaign workers consist entirely of University of Minnesota Twin Cities undergraduate students, with one student who just graduated this month. This marks the first all-student unit to unionize with the Campaign Workers Guild, announced the Guild in a press release on May 21.