The union comes to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory in Vermont

The staff at the Waterbury factory — which is often open to the public for tours and includes a “graveyard” for decommissioned flavors — is the second group of employees of the ice cream brand to organize. Workers unionized earlier this year at a retail shop in Burlington, the city where Ben & Jerry’s was founded. About 70 percent of the approximately 95 employees at the plant voted to organize, according to Brian P. Truini, secretary-treasurer of Local 371 UFCW, the food and commercial workers labor union that the Ben...