"How Lush Cosmetics tried to crush a union drive," 7 April 2021

Last November, Lush Cosmetics posted a series of anti-union messages on... 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... These anti-union messages fall within a larger campaign led by Lush to squash a union drive led by SEIU's Workers United Canada Council at its distribution facility in Canada.

... “At Lush we believe in worker rights and the employee decision to unionize or not," said Wendy Kubota, brand director of Lush North America. "We also believe employees have the right to receive correct and accurate information regarding unionization, which includes Lush’s responsibility to address any reports that contain mistruths about our people, culture and company. This includes any misinformation from unions and their supporters."

... "This is the strongest anti union campaign I’ve ever seen in Canada," Richard Bensinger, senior advisor for Workers United North America... Lush workers in Canada and the United States as well as a group of unionizing manufacturing workers in Australia, who've been meeting regularly on Zoom to organize, launched a group called the Lush Global Union. They've also started a petition demanding Lush refrain from anti-union tactics and asking it to "publicly state it will bargain in good faith with any union chosen by Lush employees."

... "We are aware of the campaign by a group of people working to unionize Lush North America," Kubota, brand director of Lush North America, said. "Out of respect for the thousands of our hardworking staff with their own unique point of view on this topic, we will continue to engage directly with our people, and not publicly, on any misinformation about our hundreds of workplaces we have proudly built and operate together for our customers.”