Danielle Olivas never questioned her job security as a bank teller for Wells Fargo until her district manager in Artesia, New Mexico — who had worked at the company for more than 30 years — was laid off.

Concerned, she called Sabrina Perez, a colleague in Albuquerque whose branch had unionized in December 2023. Thirteen months later, Olivas and her co-workers unanimously voted to unionize themselves, joining 27 other branches located across the country. It has been the first successful union drive at a major U.S. bank in decades, and one of the clearest signals of labor’s changing face in America.

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