Dollar General Committed ‘Numerous and Blatant’ Violations of Worker Rights, Judge Rules
- Chain broke law in fighting union effort, NLRB official says
- Company, labeled ‘severe violator’ by OSHA, denies wrongdoing
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Dollar General Corp. committed “numerous and blatant” violations of federal labor law in its effort to defeat a unionization drive, including illegally firing an activist employee and making an implied threat to close a store, a US labor-board judge ruled.
The company “clearly intended to interfere” with employees’ rights to organize at a Connecticut store, National Labor Relations Board judge Arthur Amchan wrote Monday, and the violations “involve individuals at the highest levels” of company management. “They were also committed pursuant to a corporate policy as to how to deal with organizing efforts by Dollar General employees.”