Union Violated Labor Law in ‘Ironic’ Case, NLRB Judge Rules

An International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers affiliate committed unfair labor practices by firing an employee who organized the union’s workforce, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.

IBEW Local 111 also violated federal labor law in other ways after its staff unionized by making unilateral changes to job conditions, threatening employees, and dragging its feet providing requested information to the staff’s union, Administrative Law Judge Robert Ringler held Monday.

“This case presents the somewhat ironic question of how a labor union, which ostensibly supports the rights of employees to join unions, might react when its own employees unionize?” Ringler wrote. ...