The NLRB has stretched the bounds of the law as thin as possible with its latest ruling aimed at protecting racist comments hurled at replacement workers by strikers. Cooper Tire employee Anthony Runion was picketing during a strike. He shouted admittedly offensive an racist taunts at black replacement workers, referencing fried chicken and watermelons, among…

The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel’s office said the agency’s test for deciding whether multiple short-term strikes were protected is difficult to apply. So he is asking the NLRB to “clarify and modify” the law. Along with the memo was a model brief, which regional officials were asked to include in filings with the…