Wells Fargo Workers Claim Layoffs Sought to Disrupt Union Effort

Wells Fargo & Co. employees seeking to be the first nonbranch-based workers to unionize say the bank fired members of their proposed bargaining unit and made other changes to working conditions ahead of a scheduled vote.

Employees in Wells Fargo’s conduct management intake department started voting Thursday on whether to join the Communications Workers of America’s Wells Fargo Workers United, the first-ever union at a major US bank.

A win for union backers would mark the first time that Wells Fargo workers beyond a local branch have voted to organize, a significant step in a union drive that has now ...