Anchor Brewing Hit With Labor Complaint Over Pro-Union Pins

Workers at Anchor Brewing Co. in San Francisco have filed an unfair labor practice charge against the company for allegedly ordering employees to stop wearing pro-union pins at work.

The directive “looked like targeted discrimination against union activity, particularly because workers have been allowed to use other insignia,” Nicole Teixeira, an attorney at Leonard Carder LLP who represents the organizing workers, told Bloomberg Law March 8. That type of order from management is a potential violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

Meanwhile, the group will have to wait another week to vote on whether to unionize due to an ...