Justices Reject Distiller’s Appeal of Federal Labor Board Ruling

The US Supreme Court turned aside an Oregon liquor maker’s challenge to an NLRB ruling that it illegally altered its union workers’ job terms in the midst of negotiations over a collective bargaining agreement.

The justices left in place Monday the National Labor Relations Board’s decision against Hood River Distillers Inc., which the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld earlier this year.

The company argued in its petition that the case gives the high court a chance to clarify an exception to the bar against unilateral employer changes to employment conditions that’s triggered by union ...