The Federalist Hit With Labor Complaint Over Founder’s Tweets

The federal government wants the publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist to delete his apparently anti-union June 6 tweet.

Ben Domenech tagged the magazine’s handle and relayed a thought about the first person who might want to organize their co-workers and form a union in The Federalist’s workplace: “I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine.”

The National Labor Relations Board is now prosecuting a case against the publication’s parent company, FDRLST Media LLC, alleging the tweet violates federal labor laws that give private-sector workers the right to unionize and act collectively for protection without ...