A judge has ruled that a prominent regional environmental nonprofit violated federal labor law by firing two employees and discouraging protected union activity before it dissolved last year.
National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas issued a decision finding that the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, known as OVEC, violated the National Labor Relations Act by terminating two employees who had been active in forming a union, coercively interrogating employees about their union activities and issuing disciplinary warnings to a third employee.
Bogas’ decision earlier this month requires OVEC to make whole the two terminated employees for any loss of earnings incurred as a result of unlawful firings, in addition to reasonable work-search and interim employment expenses.
The National Labor Relations Act guarantees employees the right to organize and bargain collectively with their employers. The National Labor Relations Board is the federal agency that enforces the law.
After a regional director issues a complaint in an unfair labor practice case, an NLRB administrative law judge hears the case and issues a decision and recommended order.
NLRB Region 9 Director Matthew Denholm filed the complaints that prompted Bogas’ decision.
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