Wells Fargo Accused by US of Preventing Fair Union Election
The complaint tees up a test of Trump-era labor enforcement.
A Wells Fargo bank branch in New York.
Photographer: Angus Mordant/BloombergThe US labor board is accusing Wells Fargo & Co. of illegally threatening and retaliating against employees, teeing up an early test of worker-rights enforcement under US President Donald Trump’s administration.
In a complaint Tuesday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board alleged that the bank prevented workers at a branch in Atwater, California, from getting a fair unionization vote. A majority of the employees had signed cards in December 2023 showing they wanted to unionize, according to the complaint, but in an election the next month the workers voted against the union.