A federal appeals judge in Washington criticized the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday for its “too-often cavalier and enabling approach” to racially and sexually demeaning misconduct by employees on strike.
“Subjecting co-workers and others to abusive treatment that is targeted to their gender, race, or ethnicity is not and should not be a natural byproduct of contentious labor disputes, and it certainly should not be accepted by an arm of the federal government,” Judge Patricia Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote. “It is 2016, and ‘boys will be boys’ should be just as forbidden on the picket line as it is on the assembly line.”
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