Teamsters local 570

NLRB protects Facebook Time for Workers

Posted On: Oct 29, 2014

Oct. 29, 2014 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | …it told employers they could not promulgate and enforce overly broad policies regulating what their workers say on the workers’ own Facebook accounts. At issue in the case, involving Triple Play Sports Bar [Watertown, Conn.], is whether workers’ comments on Facebook are “protected concerted activity” under labor law. The 3-member NLRB panel ruled they are and made that general. The case is important because workers increasingly use Facebook and other social media to communicate about working conditions, as well as to organize. Full story here.