Puerto Rico Brewery Illegally Suspended Union Boss, DC Cir. Says

A Puerto Rico brewery must give its union president back pay after a DC federal appeals panel upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision finding it had illegally put him on unpaid leave during contract negotiations.

The labor board’s 2024 holding that Compañía Cervecera de Puerto Rico Inc. unlawfully sidelined the union president for six months was upheld by “substantial evidence,” said the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit in its decision Friday.

The appeals panel agreed with the NLRB that Compañía Cervecera couldn’t argue unpaid leave was authorized by the parties’ collective bargaining agreement and ...