https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7k9deg/instacart-says-it-will-lay-off-all-of-its-unionized-workers > Instacart is firing 10 employees who voted to form the first and only union on the grocery delivery platform at a Mariano's grocery store in Skokie, Illinois, and inspired other Instacart employees to organize their coworkers at grocery stores around the country.  > The decision to terminate the employees who unionized with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546 in Skokie in early 2020 is part of a larger series of layoffs that Instacart announced on Tuesday. The news was buried in a blog post and the layoffs impact Instacart's in-store shoppers, who are direct employees of the company that pick and pack groceries at supermarkets around the country.