Chipotle has also agreed to post a notice in 40 stores in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts reminding employees of their labor rights, stating that it won't close locations or discriminate against workers for organizing or supporting union activities
Former employees of Chipotle Mexican Grill in Augusta celebrate the settlement agreement they reached with the restaurant chain. They spoke outside the shuttered store, which had been closed for more than seven months, on March. 27.
"This is the amount that Chipotle would have spent on labor had they not closed down the store, and small amount of forward pay," Brandi McNease, a former Augusta employee and lead organizer of Chipotle United, told reporters Monday morning outside the shuttered store."And it's different from regular back-pay settlements because it doesn't take into consideration any income that the employees have earned in the interim.
"I actually wanted to see the store flourish, that's why I fought so hard for this," Jazowski said."I wanted this to work. I wanted this job to be a thing, so I want that again." Chipotle employees in Augusta were the first in the nation to launch an effort to organize. They filed a petition to unionize last June. Chipotle announced that it would close the location about one month later, on the same day that the Augusta workers planned to appear before the NLRB for a hearing on their unionization drive.
Labor officials initially called on Chipotle to reopen the Augusta store, recognize the union, provide back pay and issue a notice to all stores nationwide.
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