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AT&T Unit Illegally Made Tech Ditch Union Button, NLRB Says
Law360 (February 26, 2021, 2:27 PM EST) -- An Indiana AT&T subsidiary violated federal labor law by threatening to fire a worker it claimed breached its dress code by wearing a pro-union button on his uniform, the National Labor Relations Board ruled, though it declined to scrap the dress code entirely.
A three-judge NLRB panel in a decision Thursday largely upheld an administrative law judge's September 2019 ruling. The judge found Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Inc. violated the National Labor Relations Act when a supervisor told a technician to remove a Communications Workers of America button from his uniform while the worker was leaving a company facility. The company...