All Manhattan sales staff at Bloomie's on commission. (Bloomingdale's department store)

Daily News Record, July, 1989 by Born, Pete

ALL MANHATTAN SALES STAFF AT BLOOMIE's ON COMMISSION

NEW YORK -- In what has been described as a landmark step in efforts to improve customer service, Bloomingdale's has negotiated and signed a labor contract that includes a provision allowing the entire Manhattan sales staff to be paid on a commission rather than an hourly basis.

The agreement, ratified at the weekend by the membership of Local 3 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFLCIO, covers about 1,500 sales people among the 4,000 full and part-time employees under the contract in the New York flagship. The rest are office, clerical and warehouse workers.

Roughly 12 to 15 percent of New York store's staff had been on an incentive system, mostly those selling types of...

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