Judge Finds Unlawful Conduct Caused Strike, Orders Reinstatement with Back-pay

The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Margaret G. Brakebusch has recommended that North American Salt be ordered to reinstate and make whole all union members who struck the company over Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) on April 7, 2010, at the company’s salt mine near Lydia, La.

In a decision issued this week, Judge Brakebusch determined that North American Salt committed numerous unfair labor practices by declaring impasse, refusing to bargain in good faith and unilaterally changing working terms and conditions beginning in March 2010 ... more