United States: Boeing condemned for violating union rights in North Carolina

The grounds for this sanction? On April 10, a worker at Boeing’s Charleston plant campaigning for the IAM to organize the company was called in by the HR manager after he talked about the union with his colleagues during work.  Yet, in 2003, the NLRB ruled that a company had the right to ban discussions on a trade union during work, but only if it prohibited any other discussion that was not directly work-related.  To Boeing’s great disappointment, as it claimed it never kept its employees from talking about unions during work, the Administrative Law Judge of Charleston in charge of the case ruled that Boeing was indeed guilty of unfair labor practice.