Posts tagged harassing language
For decades, labor unions had a free pass to spew racial slurs. It just ended
October 2, 2026 // Sept. 23, the NLRB closed this loophole and gave workers the full protection they deserve. Employers can now consistently discipline harassing and offensive conduct. Workers across America have been waiting for this day for years. It’s hard to overstate the level of injustice that workers have faced. The NLRB has given unions a green light to use some of the most offensive language imaginable. In one recent unionization campaign, a picketing worker called a colleague a “crack ho” and “queen of the slums,” among other sexist insults. The employer understandably fired the employee for “bullying, cursing at, and defaming a female co-worker.” But the NLRB ordered the employer to rehire the worker who verbally attacked his colleague, saying the language was legally protected.
Editorial Board: Why the NLRB needs its vacancies filled
June 9, 2026 // There are several precedents from President Joe Biden’s NLRB in dire need of overruling. One decision allows the government to order a business to bargain with a union even if workers voted against it. Another makes speech by employers illegal if it is not “carefully phrased on the basis of objective fact,” in the opinion of the government.