Guitar Center Workers In Las Vegas Vote To Unionize, Marking Third Union Win This Year(Bain Capital)

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Following in the footsteps of colleagues in New York and Chicago, employees at a Guitar Center store in Las Vegas voted on Friday to unionize. If the federal labor board ratifies the election, the store will be the third location in the Bain Capital-owned music equipment chain to go union this year.

The workers voted 14 to 5 in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, according to union officials.

Guitar Center's flagship store in Manhattan became the chain's first union shop earlier this year. That election was followed by two unsuccessful union bids in Brooklyn and Queens, and another successful one in Chicago. Union officials said they will continue trying to organize Guitar Center workers around the country, especially given the apparent victory at Town Square in Las Vegas.

Doug Simpson, the employee who spearheaded the union effort at the Vegas location, said he hoped a union contract could ultimately lead to better job security, better health benefits and more "respect" from management. Simpson said he reached out to RWDSU after his wife read about the Manhattan shop's vote earlier this year.

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1. excellent

[Hoyt]

2. Good. Maybe they will get paid better, so I don't feel like I'm taking food out of

theirs kids' mouths when I take something back.