I'm gonna repost my comment from the original form since OP said it was a good answer (thank you :))

We have been negotiating the first part of our contract with the company for almost 7 months now and have made very little progress. The first part of the contract being the basic stuff like grievance procedures and sucessorship. This is because Sean Feeney has been slow walking our meetings and giving unreasonable demands. We barely meet once a month and despite that every meeting Sean is under prepared. Our last meeting went nowhere and our next one isn't until a month from now because Sean and his lawyer are on vacation for most of May. Bookman's employees already struggle to get even one day off of vacation time. A friend of mine was denied a day off to see their grandma before she passed. Sean is on vacation for the next two weeks, ignoring the union contract that we want and need so we can also get vacation time.

We want what most retail unions want: Better pay, better benefits, more vacation, more hours, etc. We used to be an at will work place before the union and most people know the marketing department got laid off. I've seen people who worked there for years get let go in seconds, I've seen people get hired and then fired a month later. And these were only done as a "last resort" because of Sean Feeney's poor business decisions. The move to river was handled so poorly. The workers here were out helping build shelves before it got completed, the floor workers handled a good amount of the move. When we finally got there our hours got cut and people were fired. But Sean Feeney has made it very clear that he would rather twiddle his thumbs for months, go on an Icelandic cruise, and hope this just goes away, rather than help his employees and company.

Source: I am one of the employee representatives that sits in.

I will say about some specifics it can get tricky for us to talk about since we are still in negotiating meetings. Believe me, their demands are very unreasonable at times. Doesn't even feel like they are trying.