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The American Prospect: Anatomy of an Anti-Union Meeting

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Thanks to labor historian and activist Bill Barry of Baltimore for sending us this. 

How No Evil Foods, a plant-based meat company, squashed a union drive

BY DAVID DAYEN

AUGUST 2, 2021

This article appears in the July/August 2021 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.

Mike Woliansky began to speak, in a practiced, rehearsed fashion that most resembled the closing argument from a prosecutor. Woliansky is the CEO of No Evil Foods, a plant-based meat company that brands itself as strongly left-wing. Its product names include the vegan chicken “Comrade Cluck” and vegan chorizo “El Zapatista,” though when advocates of the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas got wind of that name, they were furious, and the company changed it to “El Capitan.”

But on this day, February 11, 2020, at the company’s production plant in Weaverville, North Carolina, Woliansky wasn’t talking about the importance of veganism for climate protection, or the need to seize the means of production.

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