UPS Illegally Nixed Raises During Union Election, Labor ALJ Says

United Parcel Service Inc. violated federal labor law when it told employees at a Kentucky airport facility that they would not receive a pay raise during a pending union election, a National Labor Relations Board Judge said.

Administrative Law Judge Keltner W. Locke in a Friday opinion ordered UPS to pay the employees the raises they would have received if not for the labor law violation.

The case stems from a complaint alleging that UPS denied certain employees established pay raises to maintain “laboratory” conditions while the workers decided whether to vote to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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