Workers at a Portillo’s food preparation facility in the Chicago suburb Addison voted to unionize Thursday in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board.
The approximately 50 food service workers at the Illinois-based company’s suburban plant work preparing food, such as Italian beef and sweet peppers, for local Portillo’s restaurants. Other members of the new bargaining unit include sanitation, maintenance and shipping and receiving employees at the facility.
Employees voted 28 to 20 to join the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, confirmed Kayla Blado, a spokesperson for the NLRB.
