Business & Finance US Third Circuit Court of Appeals Allows Employers to Threaten Employees With Punitive Labor if They Talk of Unionizing.

[Husky_Khan]

The US Federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Judge on Appeal allowing CEOs to threaten employees with punitive labor and degrading work environments if they attempt to Unionize.

Needless to say, the case involves a Right Wing organization called The Federalist.

What makes this even worse is the CEO of The Federalist tweeted out his threat to send employees to "the Salt Mine" if they tried to Unionize. Thankfully the Bystander Effect failed and someone did the right thing, bringing this issue up to the NLRB which ruled against The Federalist and their sociopathic CEO.

But the Courts on Appeal apparently found that it's perfectly okay... Even "funny" to threaten employees with the proverbial Gulag.

The complaint was brought by "someone who took offense to something seen while scrolling Twitter," not one of Domenech's employees, Judge Paul Matey wrote in a concurrence. The 3rd Circuit should have determined the National Labor Relations Act prevents "unaffiliated parties from searching the internet for wisecracks to transform into workplace violations."

National Labor Relations Board can't punish conservative publisher's joke tweet, appeals court rules

The case was notable for drawing a friend-of-the-court brief from the late satirist P.J. O'Rourke.

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[The Whispering Monk]

The US Federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Judge on Appeal allowing CEOs to threaten employees with punitive labor and degrading work environments if they attempt to Unionize.

Needless to say, the case involves a Right Wing organization called The Federalist.

What makes this even worse is the CEO of The Federalist tweeted out his threat to send employees to "the Salt Mine" if they tried to Unionize. Thankfully the Bystander Effect failed and someone did the right thing, bringing this issue up to the NLRB which ruled against The Federalist and their sociopathic CEO.

But the Courts on Appeal apparently found that it's perfectly okay... Even "funny" to threaten employees with the proverbial Gulag.

National Labor Relations Board can't punish conservative publisher's joke tweet, appeals court rules

The case was notable for drawing a friend-of-the-court brief from the late satirist P.J. O'Rourke.

justthenews.com

I have no problem with the ruling.

Someone not even PART of the business was offended by a joke. The initial suit should have been tossed for lack of standing.

 

[LordsFire]

Given how corrupt unions have become, this is sadly a plus, not a minus.

Your employer is not legally obligated to give you a job. If they want to set 'no unionization' as part of the terms of employment, they are allowed to do that, and you are allowed to not take the job if you don't find that acceptable.