Union Legally Axed Worker Active in Organizing Drive, NLRB Rules

An entertainment industry labor union’s termination of an accountant who was involved in a successful push to unionize the office where she worked passed legal muster, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

The Art Directors Guild would have fired Nicole Oeuvray regardless of her participation in the organizing campaign, the NLRB said in a Tuesday decision that overturned an administrative law judge’s ruling against the guild.

“As the record shows, the Respondent had significant concerns about Oeuvray’s job performance for a long period preceding her union activities,” the board said.

Supervisors complained about her performance as early as 2016, the ...