The Amy's Kitchen Plant Closure Amidst Unionization Efforts Highlights Common Alleged Anti-Union Tactic

Paste Magazine (07/28/2022)

"In 2021, No Evil Foods, a vegan company also known for its frozen meals along with its socialist-adjacent marketing, also shuttered its doors after a unionization effort that was effectively busted. Jon Reynolds, a former employee of the company who claims that he was fired for his efforts to unionize, found that this sort of activity was a part of a pattern: 'It's really interesting to see it all being repeated. And I that's the most interesting part, I think, for everything that's happening right now with Amazon, with REI, with Amy's, with Starbucks. It's the same stuff, just over and over, and it's exactly what we went through. It's just being copied and pasted, and it's incredible.'

Ornelas echoed a similar sentiment: 'That's the new way of handling it. Let's close Chipotle, let's close Starbucks, let's close the facility that No Evil foods had going. That's their new tactic.'

If these actions from corporations like Amy's, No Evil, Starbucks and Chipotle are, in fact, attempts at preventing unionization, they cause more harm than undermining workers' rights in general. They have real consequences for the workers who depend on their wages for survival."