Ahead of congressional debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA, we take a look at a long struggle of over 600 Rite Aid workers in California to form a union... After two years of reported harassment, intimidation and firing of workers trying to organize a union, a majority of Rite Aid workers at the site voted to join the International Longshore Workers Local 26... "[A]s soon as the company learned that we wanted to form a union, they started an anti-union campaign, a very abusive anti-union campaign, against us and my —- you know, all of us workers there. They hired consulting firms." [according to Rite Aid worker Angel Warner]

... Cheryl Slavinsky, Rite Aid’s Director of Public Relations, denied reports of firing workers who were trying to form the union. She told Democracy Now! producers that Rite Aid has been, quote, “bargaining in good faith” and is, quote, “anxious to settle the contract and move on.” She added that Rite Aid is, quote, “the most unionized drug store chain in the nation.”... We asked why Rite Aid hired a well-known anti-union consulting firm, your allegation, from Oliver J. Bell and Associates, the workers requesting they terminate the relationship. And Cheryl Slavinsky of Rite Aid said, “Oliver Bell & Associates is not an anti-union consulting firm. They’re a management consulting firm that conducted leadership training for all supervision at the Lancaster [distribution center] because our supervisors [there] had not previously managed in a union environment.”