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“I look forward to watching your movement grow from chapter to chapter across the country,” Brown said in a statement.
Bank of Albuquerque Branch Employee I voted On Wednesday, the vote was 5-3 to unionize under Wells Fargo Workers United of the Communications Workers of America.
The vote made Wells Fargo the first major U.S. lender to unionize.
“This is the first labor union at a major bank in the country! #UnionStrong” wrote Rep. Melanie Stansberry, D-New Mexico, in a post on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter).
The organizing move follows successful negotiations by the United Auto Workers, SAG-AFTRA, and the Writers Guild of America after weeks of strikes earlier this year.
But last week, employees at the Alaska Wells Fargo branch withdrew the petition To form a union.
Wells Fargo was one of the banks targeted in an industry-wide investigation into discriminatory mortgage lending in 2022.
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