The employees that work with infants were not supportive of your decision.

The employees that work with infants were not supportive of your decision. They collectively told you at your next employee meeting that you either needed to stop using these new gloves, or use the cost savings to benefit them in some way. Further, if you did not either stop using these new gloves, or use the cost savings to benefit them in some way, that they were going to “inform the press”. You told them that what they were doing was blackmail, and their response was “no, this is whistleblowing”. You must now decide what to do.