Trucking Company Loses Appeal to NLRB Ruling on Intimidation

The National Labor Relations Board had enough evidence to find that a Virginia trucking company’s written retort to a union flyer was illegally coercive, a federal appeals court ruled.

Most of Garten Trucking LC’s “rough response” to the union’s message was legal, but the company violated the National Labor Relations Act with one sentence threatening workers away from supporting the union, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held Monday.

“This was not a general statement that unionizing is bad for business,” the court said. “Rather, the NLRB presented substantial evidence that this is the paradigmatic quid pro ...