Workers at Philadelphia's Center City Whole Foods store voted on Monday to unionize, becoming the first local store in the chain owned by Amazon to formally organize under the United Food and Commercial Workers.

The union's election win, which workers called "historic," tees up another organizing battle inside Amazon's workforce.

A majority of workers at a flagship Whole Foods store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania voted to unionize on Monday, becoming the first in the Amazon-owned grocery chain to snatch a labor victory. Workers voted 130-100 for union representation at the Center City in Philadelphia,

Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philly have voted to unionize, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the chain.

The vote marks the first successful organizing effort at Whole Foods since Amazon acquired the grocer for $13.7 billion in 2017.

Nearly three years ago, Amazon warehouse workers in the New York City borough of Staten Island ... located in the center of Philadelphia, started organizing early last year, Young said.