Norfolk Botanical Garden worker: Union push ‘brought us all together’

Norfolk Botanical Garden worker: Union push ‘brought us all together’

It marks at least the second botanical garden in Virginia that has formed a union. Sage grew up in Norfolk never having set foot in the city’s botanical garden. Their family couldn’t afford it. They also grew up not knowing much about unions, which have long struggled to make inroads in Virginia, where public policy is stacked against organized labor. Today, Sage, who uses they/them pronouns and declined to give their last name, works at the Nor…