Cal Academy of Sciences workers need your support
They are organizing their union with SEIU 1021 -- and Academy management is engaging in classic union-busting tactics
On May 25, 2023, workers at the California Academy of Sciences filed for an NLRB union election to join SEIU 1021 as CalAcademy Workers United. Their election petition demonstrated overwhelming support across the Academy for the formal recognition of our union.
Since then, management has been attempting to defeat their organizing campaign by using typical union-busting tactics including:
- Hiring anti-union consultants and lawyers
- Launching an internal microsite containing misinformation
- Hanging posters designed to instill fear and confusion in worker break and storage areas
- Holding meetings to activate union ineligible supervisors to spread misinformation and quash the union effort
- Executive Director Scott Sampson announcing that he is “pro-union” – but not for his own staff – at an all-staff meeting
Why won’t Academy management remain neutral so its workers can vote without intimidation? Why doesn’t the Academy embrace this opportunity to link two great social movements: the movement for the environment and that of organized labor?
Please take a moment to tell the senior leadership team, including Executive Director Scott Sampson and Chief of Staff Michael Costanzo, to stop fighting their employees and do better to live up to the values of the institution so beloved in San Francisco and California.