Workers at No Evil Foods Say the Vegan, Progressive Company Busted Their Union Drive
No Evil Foods markets itself as a left-wing, “revolutionary” food company. But its workers say the company recently busted their union drive and fired organizers.
Founders of No Evil Foods Sadrah Schadel and Mike Woliansky are union-busters, say their employees.
If you pull up the Instagram account for No Evil Foods, a vegan, plant-based meat-product company, what greets you is a wall of posts in solidarity with the ongoing racial justice protests sparked by the police murder of forty-six-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis. The company seems particularly drawn to variations of “Silence is Violence,” as one of their most recent posts reads.
Social justice is No Evil Foods’s brand. Founded in 2014, the company, whose products are now sold by 5,500 retailers, is “the fastest-growing meat alternative in conventional stores,” according to Sadrah Schadel, who, along with Mike Woliansky, started the company. Representative of their left-wing branding are products like El Zapatista, a vegan chorizo product, and Comrade Cluck, a vegan chicken product. Their website describes the company as “revolutionary” and “socially conscious.” “No Evil,” after all — they’re good people.
But if you ask No Evil’s workers what they think about the company, they say Schadel and Woliansky are union-busters.
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