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On the Clock is Motherboard’s reporting on the organized labor movement, gig work, automation, and the future of work.
Last November, Lush Cosmetics posted a series of anti-union messages on the Hive, its internal portal for employees in North America. Days earlier, managers had distributed and read these letters aloud to unionizing workers at a Lush warehouse outside of Toronto, Canada.
“In Canada, unions are a business,” one letter obtained by Motherboard and signed by Lush’s executive vice president, Peter Higgins, said. “They take money from every employee’s paycheck.”
“Don’t get tricked,” it continued. “Signing a union card or signing anything through a handout or a web page, means you…
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