Brylane Corp., a retail/catalog company, has been savaged by a labor union for its alleged anti-union activities.
The company’s filing of a National Labor Relations Board election petition was a “cynical and desperate act,” said Bruce Raynor, president of UNITE.
The union charged Tuesday that Brylane management posted memos announcing a petition for a union election shortly after a meeting with the union.
The memos appeared at the firm’s Indianapolis, IN, distribution center, according to the union.
Raynor said he hopes that “workers in Indianapolis will one day enjoy true freedom of association and a voice at work, as workers at the sister facility, Chadwick’s of Boston and InFrance, currently enjoy.”
Brylane employee Doug Rhoton claimed in a statement that Brylane has spent “10 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting our union. They have shoved their anti-union message down our throats through leaflets, mandatory meetings and movies; now they want to talk about democracy.”
UNITE represents 30,000 workers in over 120 distribution centers, including those of Chadwick’s of Boston, TJ Max, Levi Strauss and Xerox. It has 250,000 members nationwide.
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