Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Union Busting!

Charles Scharf, Wells Fargo CEO & Stan Sherrill, Labor Relations Executive

Over the past 18 months, Wells Fargo workers across the country have won 29 elections in 15 states to form the first-ever union at a major American mega-bank. But Wells Fargo continues to try and stop us by hiring union busters to spread misinformation. Wells Fargo's CEO Charlie Scharf is spending millions to try and frighten employees, including hiring Stan Sherrill to direct the bank's union busting. Plus, they've hired the notorious union-busting law firm Littler, formerly Littler Mendelson.

While workers are standing strong together, the union busting campaign is definitely taking its toll on workers' mental and physical health with stress levels going through the roof. To date, CWA has filed over 35 Unfair Labor Practice charges (ULPs) with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that managers have made unlawful threats, surveilled workers, discriminated against workers exercising their rights, and even firing workers for engaging in union activity. While we have been winning these ULPs, the company keeps violating workers' rights.

A couple of our most recent ULP charges are against Stan Sherrill who recently visited a branch in Florida and allegedly interrogated workers about their union activity and solicited grievances including encouraging workers to decertify their union; and then he was caught secretly eavesdropping in on contract negotiations! They can't be trusted so we need join together to keep them in line.

Sign our petition to help us turn up the heat so we can pressure Wells Fargo into respecting workers' right to form a union without fear, intimidation, or interference from management.

To: Charles Scharf, Wells Fargo CEO & Stan Sherrill, Labor Relations Executive
From: [Your Name]

We the undersigned are asking you to stop spending millions on hiring union busting law firms like Littler Mendelson and to stop violating workers' right to form a union and collectively bargain. With over 30 Unfair Labor Practice charges being investigated by the National Labor Relations Board, and where the NLRB has found merit in at least three recent cases, including one that Wells Fargo voluntarily agreed to settle and one set to a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge in October; the time is right to change course and to stop interfering with employees' right to form a union.

Workers have the right to join together to form a union without fear of retaliation or interference from management.

As a wave of recent organizing has swept through the U.S., and unions are more popular than corporations among Americans according to recent gallop polls, this anti-union meddling is both harmful and unnecessary. It is not workers who have created antagonistic work environments, but rather the decisions companies have made in their reaction to fight against employees exercising their rights. Now is the time correct your course by remaining neutral regarding Wells Fargo workers forming a union and bargaining their first union contract.

By contrast, when workers at Beneficial State Bank sought to organize, their bank agreed to stay neutral early in the process and was vocal about their support of their workers’ right to choose freely. Now they have successfully negotiated their first union contract that promotes a workplace of mutual respect.

In order for workers’ voices to be truly heard, Wells Fargo management must respect and negotiate with the union that workers have formed and pledge to not interfere in any way with employees’ decision on whether to form a union. It is the workers’ choice!