More than 1,000 Hershey’s workers vote on plan to unionize Virginia plant

The Hershey Company posted $1.47bn in profits last year, but workers say they’ve seen pay cuts in return. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

Around 1,300 workers at a Hershey’s candy manufacturing plant in Stuarts Draft, Virginia, are voting on whether to unionize, in a move organizers say is led by older workers seeking to ensure good benefits for newer employees.

The ballots for the mail-in election to join the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union will be sent to workers on 24 February, with results to be counted on 24 March.