Ben and Jerry’s staff on the ice cream firm’s flagship retailer in Burlington, Vermont, are submitting for a union election on Monday. 

The transfer provides to a string of service business union drives, together with unionization pushes at Starbucks and Dealer Joe’s. 

Employees on the Burlington retailer have petitioned the Nationwide Labor Relations Board for an election. Their group, dubbed “Scoopers United,” has the backing of the identical union that launched Starbucks’ fast-growing organizing marketing campaign, in line with a launch from the group. 

That union, Employees United, has gained union elections at lots of of Starbucks areas throughout the nation at a fast tempo. 

If the Burlington staff approve a unionization vote, their retailer can be the primary Ben & Jerry’s location within the U.S. to take action. 

Ben & Jerry’s didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark. 

In its decades-long historical past, the corporate has change into well-known for placing its weight behind social justice causes, which turned significantly notable amid the George Floyd protests of 2020. 

Ben & Jerry’s has even sued its dad or mum firm, Unilever, when its actions got here into battle with Ben & Jerry’s said social mission.

A unionization push will put Ben & Jerry’s company beliefs to the take a look at, in line with Scoopers United. 

“Collectively, we’ve got come to embody Ben and Jerry’s slogan of ‘peace, love, and ice cream,'” the group wrote.

The employees have requested Ben & Jerry’s to signal a code of conduct that might maintain the corporate to respecting staff’ proper to prepare, whereas refraining from union-busting.

The corporate’s stance on this current unionization push is not but recognized. In 1998, the corporate challenged a unionization try made by upkeep staff in its Vermont plant, arguing the union vote needs to be held amongst all plant staff.