Verizon Wireless Wins Reversal of Labor Board Decision on Firing

The National Labor Relations Board accepted an administrative law judge’s finding that Verizon Wireless fired a New York worker because of her union activity, but a federal appeals court called it a rare case in which the board simply lacked evidence to support the finding.

The ruling suggests that merely disputing or challenging an employer’s explanations for firing a union worker won’t show the action was illegal unless there’s also evidence of anti-union hostility.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit June 19 set aside an NLRB order that had called on Cellco Partnership, which does ...