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Mike Hoover is the current owner of all Uncommon Grounds stores in New York.
He is also the co-owner of the NYVA Group, a restaurant group that owns over 40 restaurants across New York, and several others across Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Last year, ONE of his 40+ stores, the Uncommon Grounds in Saratoga Springs, voted to form a union.
READ ABOUT
IT HERE!
Mike Hoover had a choice.
He could have chosen to respect the vote of his workers to form a union and negotiate a fair contract.
Instead, he chose a strategy to make an example of this one union restaurant to send a message to all of his employees: If you try this, here’s what will happen to you. This is blatant anti-union behavior.
While Mike Hoover may claim he is not opposed to labor unions, here are some of the actions he took to try to prevent his workers from organizing a union:
Threatening workers
Withdrawing benefits
Withholding access to change
Hoover threatened workers with worse working conditions if they organized.
Hoover told employees that if they unionized, they wouldn’t get all the benefits of the non-union stores. He subsequently followed through with these threats.
Hoover falsely portrayed himself as a local, small-business owner to dissuade his workers from demanding better in their place of work… despite him having ownership of 40+ franchise locations across the state of New York and in several other states.
Now, workers are negotiating their first union contract.
Mike Hoover is slowing these negotiations.
Hoover has refused to respond to workers’ attempts to contact him since bargaining began. His bargaining team has failed to provide counterproposals on key issues, including non-discrimination, staffing levels, and holiday pay.
We believe that he cannot claim to be an underdog when he may be paying tens of thousands of dollars for anti-union legal advice.
Hoover hired a notorious and expensive anti-union law firm known as Bond, Schoeneck, and King to spearhead his union busting campaign.
A union did not prevent Mike Hoover from running a successful restaurant chain.
A fair contract would not prevent Mike Hoover from running a successful restaurant campaign.
When you treat workers with respect, dignity, and a seat at the table, your business can grow.
Uncommon Grounds workers deserve better:
Better wages
Better working conditions
A reinstatement of their benefits retaliatorily taken away
Rights provided by a union contract