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NLRB Rules that Racism is a Protected Activity
2015-06-26 00:37:56| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Although no one reading this article would disagree with the premise that employers cannot and should not tolerate bigotry from anyone in their workforce, the NLRB apparently thinks otherwise. In a troubling decision handed down earlier this month, National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Thomas M. Randazzo ruled that Cooper Tire & Rubber Company violated the National Labor Relations Act when it terminated an employee who hurled racist epithets at African-American replacement workers while the employee was on a picket line.
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