Microsoft Construction Workers Fired for Organizing, Union Says

Dozens of construction staff working on a Microsoft Corp. data center were illegally fired for protesting, a union alleged in a US labor board complaint.

In a Monday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters accused the construction company, Dulles Drywall Inc., of retaliating against 47 employees who had been helping build a Microsoft facility in Virginia. The software giant wasn’t named in the complaint.

Dulles Drywall terminated the workers because they mounted a work stoppage, pursued pay they were owed and tried to organize with the union, according to the Carpenters’ complaint. The filing ...