Wells Fargo Accused by US of Preventing Fair Union Election

The US labor board is accusing Wells Fargo & Co. of illegally threatening and retaliating against employees, teeing up an early test of worker-rights enforcement under US President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a complaint Tuesday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board alleged that the bank prevented workers at a branch in Atwater, California, from getting a fair unionization vote. A majority of the employees had signed cards in December 2023 showing they wanted to unionize, according to the complaint, but in an election the next month the workers voted against the union.

Citing a 2023 NLRB precedent, the agency’s prosecutors ...