![]() So New Seasons’ competition with Met Market looked to us like an attempt by Endeavour Capital to weaken the union and undercut our contracts. At the time, unionized Metropolitan Market and anti-union New Seasons were both owned by the same private equity firm-Endeavour Capital. Our concerns intensified when New Seasons competed aggressively with Metropolitan Market for the Mercer Island location, a former Albertsons store. Naturally, UFCW 21 members were concerned when the company announced an ambitious Puget Sound expansion in 2015. New Seasons is a Portland-based natural foods grocery chain with a record of anti-union activity. Later this year, PCC will open at the Central District location that New Seasons leased and furnished but never opened. In fact, the company’s Mercer Island store will transition to Metropolitan Market in the spring. The good news is many New Seasons workers are moving over to union stores, including Metropolitan Market and PCC. New Seasons announced in December that it would close the Ballard store and leave the Seattle market, where it had previously committed to open two to three stores per year. UFCW 21 is welcoming some of our newest members-grocery workers displaced by the December closure of New Seasons Market’s Ballard store.
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