“There are so many people who fear getting sent home early or the managers being upset with them, like I was sent home, and that makes workers very afraid. It’s very unjust that all of this treatment gets so normalized,” said Hernandez.
“There have been so many problems with disrespect, with not being given the material we need to work, and injuries happening in the workplace. Hernandez said she received no answer and the manager told her to clock out and go home without pay, two hours before her shift ended, following her until she clocked out and left. When Hernandez found out that afternoon Guzman was demoted, she defended Guzman to one of her managers and asked why the decision was made. “I felt like they were trying to camouflage the demotion because I had been exercising my rights on my break, and I felt discriminated against when they told me that I wasn’t good enough to be in a department because I didn’t speak English.” “I asked them, ‘what is the real reason that you’re doing this?’ And they said, the real reason is because I don’t speak English well enough,” said Guzman, who claimed other workers in the department have similar English proficiency and it was never mentioned as an issue before or during his training. Later the same day, Guzman was brought into an office room with other managers who informed him he was being demoted from quality assurance back to production. It’s very unjust that all of this treatment gets so normalized Aindra Hernandez Shortly after Denis Guzman and Aindra Hernandez, two workers in the quality assurance department at HelloFresh, were distributing union leaflets outside during their lunch break, the workers were approached by managers and told they were not permitted to do so. Some 386 workers at the Aurora, Colorado, facility are currently casting ballots by mail, with votes scheduled to be counted on 22 November.Īround 850 workers in Richmond are scheduled to receive ballots by 18 November, with their union election votes scheduled to be tallied on 15 December.Īhead of their union election, HelloFresh workers have claimed management retaliated against them for engaging in union activity. As demand soared, workers have reported unsafe working conditions, which contributed to workers deciding to organize to form a union. Like Amazon and other businesses now facing union drives from unhappy workers, HelloFresh experienced record sales and profits during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the company’s revenue more than doubling in 2020. We work eight hours a day and we don’t feel happy going to work, so we’re ready for a change.” And so that’s why the most important thing for me above all else is that we can win respect on the job. “One day I was running the production line, and my team lead was yelling at me, telling me to do so many things at once I couldn’t do and while yelling at me called me ‘a Mexican shit’,” said Escobar. She said co-workers came to her defense and forced the security guards to stop insisting she turn over her badge.Įscobar said the union campaign was started in response to safety issues, treatment of workers by management, and working conditions.
“I do that during lunch and that’s my right, so, I felt very intimidated,” said Escobar. During the pandemic its profits soared and now workers at its production facilities in Richmond, California, and Aurora, Colorado, are trying to form unions amid claims they have faced intimidation and abuse.Īt the Richmond, California facility, the union Unite Here Local 2850 has filed several unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against HelloFresh, alleging the company has retaliated, intimidated, and bullied union supporting workers over the last several months.Įvelin Escobar, a production worker at the Richmond, California, facility, alleged two HelloFresh security guards approached her and requested she turn in her employee badge to them, claiming she was distributing pro-union leaflets in the workplace during work hours, after she and other co-workers handed out leaflets during their lunch break outside the facility.
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