Hey yall,
So the CEO of No Evil Foods went on a podcast that was published in March and made some pretty outrageous comments about her company's record of union busting and mass layoffs.
For anyone unfamiliar, the tl;dr about this company is that back in February 2020, they busted up a union drive by hiring a really prominent union busting firm. In late March, they rolled out their pandemic response, which included incentivizing 90 days of perfect attendance in order to qualify for hazard pay or quitting with three weeks of severance after signing an NDA. Workers who challenged this policy were systematically targeted and/or fired. Later in the year, the NLRB found merit that NEF violated labor law and they settled out of court for over $40,000. The following year, they fired their entire production team without warning or severance and outsourced production to cut costs.
For more info, this video has a good summary. I'd also recommend this website.
But what's particularly interesting is that CEO Sadrah Schadel has repeatedly made comments about conducting a “free and fair” election, claiming she just wanted to “educate” workers with the seven mandatory anti-union meetings her company conducted. (There's a full recorded video of one of these meetings here — No Evil desperately tried abusing copyright laws to scrub it from the internet.)
And so this year, on the Wild Feather podcast, No Evil's CEO admitted that she went to her “board” when she learned about the union, and the board said, “Shut it down. Shut it down at all costs.”
“And so that's what we did.”
Even after blatantly admitting that her board told her to stop the union at all costs, she says in the same interview that she “really thought” she was holding “educational meetings” after she coincidentally hired one of the country's biggest union busting firms.
The contradictions here are totally incredible: either she held the anti-union meetings to be neutral and give “all sides” about unionization or her board told her to shut the union down and that's what she did. How tf can it be both?
If bosses are going to BS workers, the least they could do is be consistent and, um, good at it. These lies and contradictions are just painful to observe.
What do y'all think?