Ann Arbor Borders employees to vote Dec. 6 on joining union.(News)(employees of Borders Books & Music in Ann Arbor may join United Food and Commercial Workers International)(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, November, 2002 by Snavely, Brent

Byline: Brent Snavely More than 70 employees at the Borders Books & Music store in downtown Ann Arbor will vote Dec. 6 on whether to join the United Food & Commercial Workers union. The Ann Arbor store is symbolic because it is the first store opened by Ann Arbor-based Borders Group Inc., now the second-largest bookstore chain in the nation.

Employees contacted the union because they are frustrated with declining benefits, such as fewer paid holidays and fewer personal days, said Tom Rekuc, administrative assistant to the president of Local 876 of the UFCW. If employees vote to unionize, the union would then begin negotiating a contract with Borders. The goal, Rekuc said, is to ``put an end to at-will employment and to get a contract for their...

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