A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled this week that a Missouri-based manufacturer, Motor Appliance Corporation (MAC) violated federal labor law when they committed unfair labor practices (ULP) by threatening employees engaged in union activity with job losses and pay freezes. MAC manufactures electric motors and chargers.
The dispute began in January 2022, when the IAM filed a petition with the NLRB seeking to represent full-time and part-time production and maintenance employees at MAC. Thereafter, MAC contracted with Sparta, a labor consulting company, “to provide a ‘systematic, organized counter-campaign to secure an election win,’” the Judge wrote.
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