Salvation Army Seeks Court Order to Block Labor Board Case

The Salvation Army sued the National Labor Relations Board to stop an unfair labor practice case, arguing it falls outside the agency’s jurisdiction on First Amendment grounds.

The NLRB can’t interfere with the Salvation Army’s management of its employees because it’s a religious nonprofit, the organization said in a lawsuit Monday

The board created a test to decide whether it can assert jurisdiction over religious organizations in its 2020 decision in Bethany College.

The Salvation Army filed a Dec. 29 motion in the NLRB case to dismiss the unfair labor practice complaint alleging it maintains overbroad work rules. The ...