Workers at Hershey Co.’s second largest U.S. manufacturing plant voted against unionizing. The Hershey plant, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Stuarts Draft, Virginia, has around 1,400 employees and primarily makes products with peanuts, including Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and other candy bars like Almond Joy. Hershey in the lead up to the vote, whose counting and preliminary result were livestreamed by the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, created a website to state it did not want a union at the 40-year-old plant. The website highlighted Hershey’s perceived risks associated with unionization, including compromising its ability to recruit workers. It also pointed to the plants being open when a few rivals had furloughed employees during the pandemic. Hershey, whose two out of seven U.S. plants are unionized, also said most people who left the plant said they did so due to a lack of time-off …
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