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Software Startup Accused of Union-Busting Will Pay Ex-Employees

  • Labor Board accused California’s Lanetix of anti-union firings
  • Government was pursuing an injunction against the company
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A California cloud-software startup has agreed to pay 15 former employees $775,000 to resolve a dispute over the elimination of its entire non-managerial programming workforce in the U.S., said the union that had sought to represent the workers.

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors in August issued a complaint accusing the company, privately held Lanetix Inc., of violating federal labor law by terminating its coders because a majority of them had petitioned to unionize.

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