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A Home Depot store in Northeast Philadelphia could soon become the home-improvement chain’s very first to unionize, giving yet another boost to an energized U.S. labor movement that’s tackling the retail sector.
Vince Quiles, who works in the store’s receiving department, filed a petition this week for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. Quiles, 27, said he gathered more than 100 signed union cards from his orange apron-clad co-workers in a little more than a month.
Labor unions have made a number of breakthroughs at high-profile, historically non-union companies in recent months: Starbucks, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and REI. Quiles sees no reason why Home Depot shouldn’t be next.
“We’re inspired by Starbucks and Amazon — let us be the catalyst at Home Depot,” Quiles told HuffPost. “I know the people in that building. … They aren’t really being treated like they should [be], with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
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