StoryCorps Workers Fight Anti-Union Campaign

As workers fight for a union at StoryCorps, a nonprofit that collects oral stories, The Nation wrote about how the company is running an aggressive anti-union campaign:

When a group of employees told management of their intention to unionize in late May, the organization declined to voluntarily recognize the union. In the weeks that followed, management required employees’ attendance at meetings where it discussed its opposition to the union and later disputed the workers' bargaining unit in front of the National Labor Relations Board. The employees have continued with their unionization campaign, and will vote on whether to unionize at an upcoming NLRB election, the date of which has not yet been set.

"We thought, like many progressive organizations, they would understand that the same values we communicate through our work we would ask for in-house," said Williams. But in mandatory meetings and FAQs distributed to staff, StoryCorps has sent the message that it does not want to negotiate with a union. "They're trying to make it seem as if the process we have chosen is not legitimate," Williams said.

Read the full piece here.