Trader Joe's workers set to vote on forming a union

Workers at a Trader Joe's in Hadley, Massachusetts, are scheduled to vote this week on whether to form the first union at the nationwide grocery chain.

The vote comes as a wave of organizing sweeps the retail sector, with thousands of workers at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and other large employers voting to form unions.

A union election at the Trader Joe's store, in Western Massachusetts' bucolic Pioneer Valley is set for Wednesday and Thursday, with 88 employees at the store eligible to vote. A win for the union could set a precedent for the chain's more than 500 locations across the U.S.