Liquor Company Illegally Replaced Strikers, Labor Board Rules

An Oregon liquor company must rehire nearly two dozen employees after the National Labor Relations Board ruled it illegally replaced them when they were on strike.

Hood River Distillers violated federal labor law by replacing 23 workers who were protesting the company’s refusal to bargain with their union, the NLRB said in its decision Thursday.

The complaint arose when the company unilaterally issued its final contract offer, declaring that negotiations were at in impasse in May 2020. The workers, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, went out on strike for several months.

The board, affirming an earlier decision ...