8th Circuit Upholds Employer’s Right to Discipline Workers Who Solicit During Working Time

Last Friday, a three-judge panel for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in ConAgra Foods v. NLRB, case number 14-3771 (decision), that ConAgra Foods Inc. did not violate federal labor law when it disciplined a worker for soliciting union membership at the company’s Slim Jims manufacturing plant in Ohio.  The Court reversed a 2014 NLRB decision that the employer violated the NLRA when it reprimanded an employee for asking coworkers, while working, to return signed union cards.

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