A Year in the Making, Tartine Employees Vote to Unionize
The final tally came out to 93–90
Last March, workers at one of San Francisco’s most renowned (and Instagram-famous) bakeries voted to start the process of unionization —which continued even after the pandemic left many laid off and made popular storefronts shapeshift to takeout-only options. This week, that process reached a new milestone: a finalized winning vote in favor of continuing with unionization.
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, the news came after more than a year since employees first voted in a contested union vote. The initial election resulted in 89 pro-union votes and 84 anti-union votes among the SF workers at Tartine Bakery, Tartine Manufactory, and Tartine in the Inner Sunset. (Workers needed a majority to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union — the same organization that’s currently organizing at Dandelion Chocolate.)
But after that initial vote, 24 votes were “left in dispute” between the union and Tartine’s management, which led to an election being sent to the…
