Anheuser-Busch’s Arbitration Bid Blocked by NLRB Do-Over Ruling

Anheuser-Busch LLC must withdraw its federal court motion seeking to enforce a former employee’s arbitration agreement on his race discrimination lawsuit, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

The NLRB on Friday upheld an administrative law judge’s 2013 ruling against Anheuser-Busch, which found the company’s bid to arbitrate union member Matthew Brown’s bias claims violated federal law. The board had overturned the ALJ’s decision in 2019, but changed its tune after a 2023 remand from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The case shows how employer efforts to push lawsuits into arbitration can lead to protracted litigation. Brown ...