“They fired us because we tried to start a union,” said Julio Perez, who worked in Cort’s warehouse in North Bergen, New Jersey. “They fired us because we tried to start a union,” Perez said. After federal officials postponed such votes nationwide during the coronavirus pandemic, Housing Works laid off 29 people and furloughed 167 more. It’s hard — sometimes impossible — to prove that a company is dumping workers in order to undermine a union as opposed to simple cost-cutting. Less than two weeks later, Housing Works laid off 29 people and furloughed 167.

Source: bd News24 April 28, 2020 19:30 UTC