Employees testified that immediately after the UE local filed an election petition with the NLRB supervisors at MTIL, Inc., the Company made comments to employees that the employer, which sanitizes plastic packing crates for another company, might close or relocate its plant if the union was elected. The NLRB also received testimony that supervisors told…

A nursing home whose employees voted against union representation 64-60 was ordered to start bargaining with the union for a contract, a seldom-used penalty levied against companies that commit egregious unfair labor practice charges during a union organizing campaign. The company allegedly committed two “hallmark” unfair labor practices. First, it granted a raise to workers…

In hallmark violations of the National Labor Relations Act, a manager told employees that their co-workers took a “huge risk” by supporting the union and that their audacity angered him. The manager also said that “by doing all of this union crap you’ve thrown us back almost all the way to square one” warning that…