On Monday, July 17, 2023, NLRB Administrative Law Judge Arthur Amchan held that Dolgen Corporation, LLC, d/b/a Dollar General (Dollar General) violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing a pro-union worker, illegally surveilling and interrogating employees, and threatening to close a store where a petition for union representation had recently been filed.
The dispute began in September 2021 when United Food and Commercial Workers Local 371 filed a petition to represent the employees at Dollar General’s Barkhamsted, Connecticut store. The next day, two representatives from corporate headquarters’ “Rapid Response Team” arrived at the store, followed days later by a third. The corporate officials maintained a daily presence at the store for the entire period leading up to a scheduled election, over four weeks later — an unprecedented amount of time. During that month, these corporate officials surveilled employees’ union activity, solicited grievances and granted benefits, kept a running assessment of who they believed was likely to vote in favor of the union, impliedly threatened that if the Union was voted in the store would be closed, and two weeks before the election, fired the worker they believed was the lead supporter of the union.
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