NLRB Finds Produce Company Illegally Watched Union Organizers

An Arizona produce company violated federal labor law by surveilling and issuing written warnings to union supporters, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

Drivers and warehouse employees at Stern Produce’s Phoenix location had been organizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union since 2015, and the union filed unfair labor practice charges against the company in 2021. UFCW alleged that Stern management watched organizers through cameras in their trucks.

The three-member NLRB panel ruled Wednesday to overturn a decision by a previous administrative law judge and found that the surveillance counted as a violation of the National Labor Relations ...