Spruce Confections workers make historic unionization push in Boulder

BOULDER — As the ongoing John Deere (NYSE: DE) and Kellogg Co. (NYSE: K) strikes shine a spotlight on collective worker action across the country, Boulder is stepping onto the scene with a unionization push at Spruce Confections LLC.

In a fight for improved pay, benefits and working conditions, a majority of the roughly 70 non-management employees at the local Boulder bakery chain have signed union cards in hopes of joining the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, and Grain Millers Union Local 26.

Should they succeed, the Spruce Confections workers will be the first food-service employees in Boulder County to unionize, according to the…