The French Laundry Placed on 'Unfair' List
A multi-month dispute between the engineers' union and the local laundry service ends with a formal boycott by the Everett Trades Council.
The French Laundry has gone under the ban of organized labor and has been placed 'unfair' by the Everett Trades Council. A controversy of several months' standing with the engineers' union is the cause and last Friday evening the council concurred in the action of the engineers, after failing to get a settlement through the council committee.
“The French laundry has gone under the ban of organized labor and has been placed 'unfair' by the Everett Trades Council.”
In 1912, the labor movement used 'unfair lists' published in trade newspapers to organize consumer boycotts against local businesses. This practice persists today in the form of 'Do Not Patronize' lists maintained by unions to pressure employers during contract negotiations.
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