Case: Labor Relations/Interference (N.L.R.B.)

The National Labor Relations Board upheld a ruling that the U.S. Postal Service processing and distribution center in Virginia violated the National Labor Relations Act by implementing and enforcing a policy prevented the union representing the postal workers from distributing literature and petitions, and from using the facility’s community bulletin boards for concerted protected activities. The board upheld the administrative law judge’s finding that the USPS’s nonsolicitation policy was enforced at the facility in a way that chilled protected union activity by giving the impression that employees would be disciplined for engaging in activity that would otherwise be protected by ...