Trader Joe’s Union Files Labor Charge Over ‘Frivolous’ IP Suit

The union representing Trader Joe’s employees is accusing the grocery company of violating federal labor law by lodging a trademark lawsuit against the union in retaliation of the workers’ efforts to organize.

Trader Joe’s United filed an unfair labor practice charge against Trader Joe’s and the company’s law firm, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, on Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board.

In a letter to O’Melveny & Myers partner David Eberhart, the union’s lawyers called the copyright suit a “calculated nefarious legal scheme,” to “punish essential workers who are exercising their legally-protected right to form a union.” The letter also ...