Tech Start-Up Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort

A group of Lanetix Inc. software engineers in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., were laid off for trying to join a union, according to organizers working with the group and a complaint obtained by Bloomberg Law.

One of the engineers was fired earlier in the year for “participating in group discussions on an internal” Slack instant messaging group, the Communication Workers of America said in the National Labor Relations Board complaint. The remaining 14 were laid off Jan. 26.

Engineers in the San Francisco office were informed of the decision after being called into an impromptu meeting. “By the time ...